List of windmills in Devon
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Template:SHORTDESC: A list of windmills in Devon.
Locations
[edit | edit source]| Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbotsham | Bowood Mill | 1765 1827 |
1765 | 1827 | ||
| Abbotsham | Tealter Mill | 1695 | Demolished c. 1817 | |||
| Alverdiscott | 1603 | 1603 | ||||
| Bere Ferrers | 1637 | 1637 | ||||
| Brixham | Little Rey Mill SX 926 557 |
Tower | 1797 | 1840 Windmill World |
File:Little Rey Mill, Brixham - geograph.org.uk - 1225971.jpg | |
| Brixham | Furzeham Common Mill | Tower | 1818 | 1838 | ||
| Broadclyst | Clyston Manor Mill SX 991 966 |
Tower | 1809 1827 |
1786 | Windmill World | File:Broadclyst Windmill.jpg |
| Cruwys Morchard | 1553 | 1553 | ||||
| Dartmouth | Post | c. 1700 | c. 1700 | |||
| Exminster | Shillingford Mill | 1835 | 1835 | |||
| Exmouth | Tower | 1809 | 1797 | Demolished 1849 | ||
| Galmpton Warnborough | SX 889 567 | Tower | 1827 | c. 1810 | Windmill World | File:Galmpton Windmill.jpg |
| Holsworthy | Tower | 1765 | 1765 | Demolished c. 1890 | ||
| Instow | Church Mill SS 482 312 |
Tower | Windmill World | File:Church Mill, Instow.jpg | ||
| Instow | South Mill | 1797 | 1797 | |||
| Littleham | Heale House[1] | Titt iron wind engine | ||||
| Lundy | North Mill | Tower | 17th century | Ruin by 1787 | ||
| Lundy | West Mill SS 136 465 |
Tower | 17th century | Windmill World | ||
| Northam | 1675 | 1609 | 1675 | |||
| Northam | Bidna Mill SS 457 296 |
Tower | 1806 | Tower blown down 1919 Windmill World |
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| North Whilborough | Long Burrow Mill SX 872 658 |
Tower | Windmill World | File:North Wilborough windmill.jpg | ||
| Paignton | Fernacombe Mill SX 875 624 |
Tower | 1829 | Windmill World | File:Paignton windmill.jpg | |
| Pilton | 1594 | |||||
| Petrockstowe | Heanton Mill SS 491 103 |
Tower | 1809 | 1756 | Windmill World | File:Petrockstowe windmill.jpg |
| Plymouth | Devonport Mill | 1751 | Demolished 1762 | |||
| Plymouth | Devonport Mill | Tower | 1827 | 1762 | Demolished c. 1843 | |
| Plymouth | Hoe Mill | Post | 1564 | 1792 | ||
| Plympton St Mary | 1561 | 1561 | ||||
| Rackenford | 1765 | 1765 | 1765 | |||
| Sandford | Dowrish Mill | Late 16th century | Late 16th century | |||
| Shute | Shute House[1] | Titt iron wind engine | 1900 | |||
| Stokenham | 1612 | 1612 | ||||
| Teigngrace | 1713 | 1713 | ||||
| Teignmouth | 1628 | 1727, demolished by 1759 | ||||
| Topsham | 1769 | 1790, demolished by 1817 | ||||
| Torquay | Yaddon Down Mill SX 908 658 |
Tower | 1673 | Windmill World | File:Windmill (disused) - geograph.org.uk - 391093.jpg | |
| Torquay | Chelston Mill | 1823 | 1823 | |||
| Torquay | Fleet Mill | 1808 | 1820 | |||
| Witheridge | 1765 | 1765 | 1765 | |||
| Woodbury | 1289 | 1289 | ||||
| Woodbury Salterton | 1549 | 1549 | ||||
| Woolfardisworthy | Almiston Mill | c. 1840 | c. 1840 |
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Sources
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Maps
[edit | edit source]- 1675 John Ogilby
- 1765 Benjamin Donn
- 1809 Ordnance Survey
- 1827 C & J Greenwood
Notes
[edit | edit source]Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.