A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Bedfordshire.__TOC__
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph | |
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Apsley Guise | Post | Demolished c. 1900 | |||||
Barton-in-the-Clay | Barton Mill | Post | 1831 | 1851 | |||
Bedford | Mill Street | 1842 | Burnt down February 1844 | ||||
Biggleswade | Franklin's Tower The Steam Mill | Tower | 1860 | Demolished 1966 | |||
Biscot | Smock | ||||||
Bolnhurst | Post | ||||||
Colmworth | Post | ||||||
Cranfield | Cranfield Windmill | tower | Demolished 1966 | ||||
Dunstable | Tower | Late 18th or early 19th century | Windmill World | ||||
Dunstable | |||||||
Dunstable | |||||||
Flitwick | Standing 1880s | ||||||
Flitwick | Smock | c. 1850 | Burnt down 9 November 1903 | ||||
Great Barford | Smock | 1835 | Demolished 1907 | ||||
Henlow | Smock | 1819[1] | Demolished 1935 | ||||
Houghton Conquest | Post | Demolished 1830s | |||||
Houghton Conquest | Houghton Conquest Mill | Tower | 1830s | Windmill World | |||
Houghton Regis | Smock | Replaced by tower mill | |||||
Houghton Regis | Tower | 18th century | |||||
Hulcote | Hulcote Windmill | Tower | 19th century | Demolished c. 1880, machinery to Spaldwick Mill, Huntingdonshire Windmill World | |||
Husbourne Crawley | Pug Mill | Vertical axis | 1820 | Demolished c. 1840 | |||
Keysoe | Post | c. 1800 | Blown down 1948 | ||||
Leighton Buzzard | 1212 | 1212 | |||||
Leighton Buzzard | Flemmon's Mill | Post | Moved to Whipsnade 1860 | ||||
Leighton Buzzard | Beaudesert Mill | tower | Early 19th century | Demolished 1890s | |||
Lower Dean | Post | 1620[2] | Collapsed 20 December 1959 | ||||
Lower Dean | Post | 1765 | 1762 | Rebuilt 1834 | |||
Lower Dean | Post | 1834 | Collapsed 1959 Windmill World | ||||
Luton | Biscot Windmill | Post | Burnt down 1841 | ||||
Luton | Biscot Windmill | Smock | 1842 | Demolished 1938 | |||
Markyate | Post[3] | 1222 | 1222 | ||||
Markyate | Caddington Mill | Post | c. 1810 | Blown down c. 1815 | |||
Potton | Post | 1840s | 1853 | ||||
Potton | Tower | Demolished 1955 Windmill World | |||||
Riseley | Post | Standing 1936 | |||||
Riseley | Smock | ||||||
Sharnbrook | Sharnbrook Windmill | Tower | Windmill World | ||||
Shefford | Shefford Windmill | Tower | Windmill World | ||||
Stanbridge | Stanbridge Windmill | Tower | 1800 | Windmill World | |||
Stevington | Stevington Windmill | Post | c. 1770 | Windmill World | |||
Sundon | Post | Moved to Toddington 1847 | |||||
Thurleigh | Thurleigh Windmill | Tower | 1890 | Windmill World | |||
Toddington | Post | Demolished c. 1845 | |||||
Toddington | Post | 1847 | Blown down 1880s | ||||
Totternhoe | Post | ||||||
Totternhoe | Doolittle Windmill | Tower | c. 1820 | Windmill World | |||
Upper Dean | Upper Dean Windmill | Tower | 1856[4] | Windmill World | |||
Whipsnade | Post | 1860 | Demolished 1877 | ||||
Woburn | Woburn Windmill | Smock | Demolished 1805 Windmill World | ||||
Yelden | Post | Burnt down October 1877 |
For windmills in Eaton Socon see List of windmills in Cambridgeshire.
Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is Book: Howes, Hugh. 1983. Bedfordshire Mills. Bedfordshire County Council. Bedford. 0-907041-06-X.
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.