List of windmills in Shropshire

This is a list of windmills in the English county of Shropshire.

Locations

Confirmed

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise
Alberbury	Rew Wood Mill	Post			Gone by 1774
Alberbury	Rowton Mill Sunny Bank Mill SJ 366 129	Tower		1774	Windmill World
Albrighton	Albrighton Mill SJ 802 040	Tower		1768	Windmill World
Albrighton	SJ 818 042		1827	1827	1827
Asterley	Westbury Road SJ 373 075	Tower	1827 1833	1809	Windmill World
Bayston Hill	Lyth Hill Mill SJ 470 068	Tower		c. 1835	Windmill World
Bishop's Castle	Approximately SO 327 897		1808	1805	1808
Bourton	Henmoor Hill Mill^[1]			c. 1717^[1]	c. 1717^[1]
Broome	Broome station	Titt iron wind engine		1895^[2]
Broseley	Syners Hill Great Mill			1778^[3]	1838^[4]
Broseley	Syners Hill Lesser Mill			1782^[3]	Stump still standing 2010 ^[3]
Broseley	Ferney Bank Mill			1776^[5]	1838^[4]
Cardeston	SJ 365 129	Tower		Late 18th century
Chetwynd	Howle Mill SJ 695 325	Tower		1845	Windmill World
Ditton Priors	Hillside Mill SO 593 877	Tower		1845	1883^[6] Windmill World
Ellesmere	SJ 406 342		1808	1803	1908
Hadnall	Waterloo Mill SJ 523 210	Tower		1787	Windmill World
Harley	Harley Court Mill SJ 597 018	Tower	1808	1808	Demolished 1960
Harmer Hill	Shotton Farm Mill SJ 496 216	Tower			Windmill World
Ketley	Near ironworks SJ 673 107			1794^[7]	1856, gone by 1870^[7]
Lilleshall				1804^[8]	1880, gone by 1901^[8]
Longford	combined wind and water mill SJ 718 181	Tower
Loppington	SJ 463 302		1808	1808	1908
Lydbury North	Walcot Estate	Titt iron wind engine		1895^[2]
Lydbury North	Walcot Estate	Titt iron wind engine		1896^[2]
Madeley	Madeley Court Mill SJ 695 053	Tower	1827 1832	1702^[9]	Windmill World
Munslow	Bache Mill^[10]			Early 19th century^[10]	1880s^[10]
Much Wenlock				1321^[1]	1321^[1]
Much Wenlock	Much Wenlock Mill SJ 625 008	Tower	1752 1833	1714^[1]	Windmill World
Posenhall			1808	1808^[11]	1808,^[11] gone by 1845^[12]
Preston on the Weald Moors	west of village			1676^[13]	1676^[13]
Rodington	SJ 590 144	Tower	1833	c. 1830	1904, truncated by 1936 Windmill World
Shifnal	Upton Mill SJ 756 067	Tower			Windmill World
Shrewsbury				1267^[14]	1267^[14]
Shrewsbury	Kingsland SJ 484 117			1796^[15]	1796^[15]
Telford	Hadley Park Mill SJ 677 135	Tower	1808 1827	c. 1787	Windmill World
Wellington				1315^[16]	1315^[16]
Wem				1281^[16]
Wem	Cotonwood Mill SJ 542 351	Tower		1813	Windmill World
Westbury	Vennington Mill SJ 337 096	Tower	1808	1808	Windmill World
Weston-under-Redcastle	Hawkstone Mill SJ 566 297	Tower		1808	Windmill World
Willey				1755^[17]	1755
Whixall	Stanley Green Mill SJ 518 352		1827 1833	1827	Demolished c. 1930
Wrockwardine					destroyed 1349^[16]
Wrockwardine			1752	1752	1752
Wrockwardine	Cluddley Mill SJ 631 104	Tower		1827	Windmill World
Wroxeter	Charlton Hill Mill SJ 588 075	Post	1752 1808 1827 1833	1752	1833

Maps

1752 John Rocque
1808 Baugh
1827 C & G Greenwood
1832 Ordnance Survey
1833 Ordnance Survey

Notes

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.

Sources

Unless otherwise indicated, the source for all entries is:-Seaby, Wilfred A, and Smith, Arthur C (1984). Windmills in Shropshire Hereford and Worcester. Stevenage: Stevenage Museum. ISBN 0-9504239-8-X. or the linked Windmill World page.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 "MUCH WENLOCK". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
1 2 3 Major, J Kenneth (1977). The Windmills of John Wallis Titt. The International Molinological Society.
1 2 3 "Booth, T. "Broseley's Windmills", Broseley Local History Society Journal, 2010" (PDF). Broseley Local History Society. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
1 2 "Broseley Tithe Apportionamet - 1838 - List of entires by plot number" (PDF). Broseley Local History Society. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
↑ "BROSELEY". British History Online. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
↑ "DITTON PRIORS". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
1 2 "ECONOMIC HISTORY". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
1 2 "ECONOMIC HISTORY". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
↑ "ECONOMIC HISTORY". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
1 2 3 "MUNSLOW". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
1 2 "POSENHALL". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
↑ "BENTHALL". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
1 2 "ECONOMIC HISTORY". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
1 2 "THE ABBEY OF SHREWSBURY". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
1 2 "Shrewsbury, Shropshire". Workhouses. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
1 2 3 4 "DOMESDAY BOOK TO 1300". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
↑ "WILLEY". British History Online. Retrieved 16 June 2009.

Windmills in England

East	Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Ashdon Aythorpe Roding Bocking Churchstreet Clavering Debden Finchingfield Fryerning Great Bardfield Great Dunmow Mountnessing Orsett Ramsey Rayleigh South Ockendon Stansted Mountfitchet Stock Terling Thaxted Tiptree Toppesfield White Roding Hertfordshire Ardeley Brent Pelham Croxley Green King's Walden North Mymms Reed Tring Weston Norfolk Aslacton Aylsham Blakeney Billingford Burnham Overy Staithe Union Carbrooke Caston Catfield Cley Denver Diss East Dereham East Harling East Runton East Wretham Garboldisham Gayton Great Bircham Great Ellingham Hickling Hindringham Ingleborough Old Buckenham Thrigby West Winch Weybourne Norfolk Drainage mills Berney Arms Boardman’s Brograve Catfield Clayrack Horning Horsey Hunsett Lambrigg Lockgate Palmer’s Reedham Starston Stubb Suffolk Aldeburgh Bardwell Barnham Blundeston Bungay Burgh Buxhall Clare Cockfield Corton Creeting St Mary Crowfield Dalham Drinkstone Eastbridge Framsden Friston Gazeley Great Thurlow Great Welnetham Herringfleet Holton Kelsale Lound Pakenham Reydon Saxtead Green Stanton Stowmarket Syleham Thelnetham Thorpeness Walberswick Walton Woodbridge Buttrum's Tricker's

East Midlands	Derbyshire Northamptonshire Rutland Leicestershire Ullesthorpe Lincolnshire Alford Boston Burgh-le-Marsh Heckington Kirton in Lindsey Metheringham Moulton Waltham Wrawby Nottinghamshire Sneinton

London	Greater London Arkley Barking Battersea Brixton Keston Plumstead Common Shirley Upminster Wandsworth Common Wimbledon Common

North East	Durham Northumberland

North West	Cheshire Cumbria Lancashire Little Marton Lytham Thornton Merseyside Bidston Wavertree

South East	Buckinghamshire Cobstone Hawridge Pitstone East Sussex Alfriston Argos Hill Battle Cross in Hand Crowborough Herstmonceux Icklesham Kingston Mark Cross North Chailey Nutley Punnetts Town Rye Polegate Rottingdean Stone Cross Tide Mills Patcham West Blatchington Winchelsea Hampshire Bursledon Chalton Crux Easton Langstone Isle of Wight Bembridge Kent Benenden Bidborough Barham Canterbury Charing Chillenden Chislet Copton Cranbrook Eastry Edenbridge Guston Herne Kingston Margate Meopham Northbourne Oare Ringwould Rolvenden Sandhurst Sandwich Sarre Sheerness Stanford Stelling Minnis St Margaret's Bay West Kingsdown Whitstable Willesborough Wittersham Woodchurch Oxfordshire Berkshire Surrey Buckland Capel Ewhurst Frimley Green Lowfield Heath Outwood Reigate Reigate Heath Tadworth West Sussex Angmering Arundel Barnham Clayton Earnley East Wittering Halnaker High Salvington Keymer Nutbourne Pagham Selsey Shipley Washington West Chiltington

South West	Cornwall Devon Gloucestershire Dorset Cottonfields Top Growlands Somerset Ashton Stembridge Wiltshire Wilton

West Midlands	Herefordshire Shropshire Staffordshire Worcestershire Warwickshire Chesterton

Yorkshire and the Humber	East Riding of Yorkshire Skidby North Yorkshire York South Yorkshire West Yorkshire

List of windmills in the United Kingdom

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