List of windmills in East Sussex explained

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of East Sussex.__TOC__

Locations

A - B

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Alfriston	Alfriston Mill	Tower		1834	Windmill World
Arlington	Windover Mill	Post		c. 1800	Burnt down c. 1881
Baldslow	Hayward's Mill	Post			Demolished 1855
Baldslow	The Harrow Mill	Smock		1855
Barcombe		Post		c. 1818	Burnt down c. 1907
Battle	King's Head Mill	Post			Demolished 1805
Battle	King's Head Mill Caldbec Hill Mill	Smock		1805	Windmill World
Battle	Telham Hill Mill	Post		1747	Demolished 1962
Battle	Watch Oak Mill Netherfield Mill		1813
Beckley	Old Mill		1724	1724	1724
Beckley	New Mill
Beddingham	Old Mill		1724 1813	1724	1813
Berwick		Post	1724	1724	1724
Bexhill	Mount Idle Mill
Bexhill	Black Mill
Bexhill	Down Mill Hoad's Mill	Post		1784	Collapsed during storm 30 July 1965, demolished 31 July 1965.^[1] Information and photographs
Bishopstone	Tide Mills	Smock		1860s	1883
Bishopstone		Post
Brede		Post	1813	1794	1905
Brightling	Beacon Mill
Brighton	Brighthelmstone Mill (north)^[2]	Post		1545	Blown down 1703
Brighton	Brighthelmstone Mill (south)	Post		1545	Blown down 1703
Brighton	Church Hill Mill	Post	1724	1724	Blown down 10 May 1726
Brighton	Coffee Mill, East Street	Post		1736	1736
Brighton	West Mill, Belle Vue Fields Regency Square Mill	Post^[3]		1744	Moved to Preston 28 March 1797
Brighton	West Street Mill			1744	1750, Possibly moved to Black Rock
Brighton	East Brighton, Lewes Crescent			1793	1795, possibly moved (East End Mill)
Brighton	East End Mill	Post		1800	1842, moved to Sudeley Place by 1847
Brighton	Black Rock Mill Roedean Mill^[4]			c. 1750	c. 1790
Brighton	Sudeley Place Mill East Mill	Post		1790s^[5]	Moved to Windmill St (Taylor's Mill) mid1840s
Brighton	Vine's Mill Clifton Gardens Mill	Post		1810^[6]	Moved to Windmill Street c. 1837
Brighton	Toronto Terrace Mill Albion Hill Mill^[7] Brighton Park Mill Butcher's Mill	Post		1822	Moved to Falmer (Race Hill) December 1861
Brighton	Windmill Street Clifton Mill	Post		c. 1837	Demolished c. 1862
Brighton	Windmill Street Taylor's Mill East End Mill			1847	Collapsed 24 March 1862 whilst being prepared for move to new site at Woodingdean
Brighton	Preston Mill Streeter's Mill Black Mill Trusler's Mill	Post		1797^[8]	Demolished c. 1890
Brighton	Lashmar's Old Mill Hove Mill^[9]	Post		1780	Demolished 1821
Brighton	Lashmar's New Mill	Post		1821	Moved to Clayton, 1852
Brighton	Port Hall Mill	Post		1826	Demolished c. 1882
Brighton	Bear Mill	Post		1813	Standing 1903
Brighton	Site later occupied by Hanover Mill			1813	1813
Brighton	Hanover Mill ^[10]	Post		1838	Demolished c. 1887
Brighton	Rose Hill Mill Roundhill Mill Cutress's Mill	Tower		c. 1834	Demolition commenced 13 March 1913, completed by 25 April 1913
Brighton	Black Mill Hodson's Mill West Hill Mill	Smock		1808	Demolished 25 June 1866
Burwash	Witherenden Mill
Burwash	Rockhill Mill	Post		1839	Collapsed 1940

C

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Catsfield	Catsfield Mill	Post
Chailey		Post		1596	Six mills in succession, on same site as Heritage mill
Chailey	Heritage Mill	Smock			Windmill World
Chailey	South Common Mill	Smock	1823	c. 1808	Standing 1922 Windmill World
Chailey	Yokehurst Mill		1813	1790	Moved to South Common c. 1808
Chiddingly	Willard's Mill, The Dicker Old Mill
Chiddingly	Black Mill, The Dicker
Chiddingly	Golden Cross Mill, The Dicker Wicken's Mill	Post	1823	1823	Demolished 1919. roundhouse house converted Windmill World
Chiddingly	Lower Dicker Mill Ovenden's Mill New Mill	Post		1813	Collapsed 28 December 1929
Cross in Hand	Waldron Down Mill	Post		1598	Struck by lightning and severely damaged, 1790
Cross in Hand	Old Mill Little Mill	Post		1791	Demolished 1903 Windmill World
Cross in Hand	New Mill	Post		1855	Windmill World
Crowborough	Beacon Mill	Post		1782	Burnt down c. 1940
Crowborough	Pratt's Mill	Tower		1862
Crowhurst

D - E

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Dallington		Smock		c. 1852	Demolished 1913 Windmill World
Ditchling	Elphick's Farm Mill	Hollow post		c. 1884	1904
East Blatchington	Black Mill
East Blatchington	Pumping mill	Tower		1882	Demolished c. 1919
Eastbourne	Parsonage Mill Black Mill Watt's Lane Mill Rectory Manor Mill	Post
Eastbourne	Paradise Hill Mill
Eastbourne	White Mill	Post
Eastbourne	Rodmill Farm Mill
Eastbourne	Radmill Village Mill	Post
Eastbourne	Ocklynge Mill	Tower			Standing in 1934
Eastbourne	Old Mill	Tower		1800	Replaced by Hurst's Mill, 1808
Eastbourne	Hurst's Mill St John's Mill	Tower		1808	Demolished 1950
Eastbourne	Bullock Down	Wind wheel
Eastbourne	Pashley Down	Vertical axle mill		1752	1767, Demolished by 1785
Eastbourne	Pashley Down	Post	1724	1724	1785, later burnt down
Eastbourne	Seafront	Vertical axle mill		1757	1780s
Eastbourne	Ocklynge Hill	Vertical axle mill		c. 1767	Burnt down 1811
Eastbourne	Black Mill	Post
East Grinstead	North End Mill			1564^[11]	Burnt down 1757^[12]
East Grinstead	Common Mill			1767	Standing 1900
East Grinstead	Ashurst Wood Mill Cutten's Hill Mill^[13]	Smock^[14]			Demolished 1882
East Grinstead	Pook Hill Mill		1823	1823^[15]	1823, gone by 1841
East Hoathly		Post			Burnt down 1824^[16]
East Hoathly		Post		1824	Burnt down December 1891
Ewhurst	Brasses' Mill		1724	1724	1724
Ewhurst	Beacon Mill
Ewhurst	Staplecross Mill	Smock		1815	Demolished 1951

F

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Fairlight	Old Mill	Smock	1813	1813	Burnt down 1872^[17]
Fairlight	Batchelor's Mill	Post
Falmer	Old Mill	Smock	1724	1617	1724, later burnt down
Falmer	Falmer Mill	Post		1801	Moved within Falmer, 1817
Falmer	Mill Street	Post		1817	1866
Falmer	Race Hill Mill	Post		1861	Blown down 16 May 1913
Firle	Firle Mill		1724	1724	1724
Forest Row	Old Mill
Framfield	Mount Ephraim Mill	Post		1841^[18]	Moved to Cross in Hand, 1855
Framfield	Blackboys Mill	Post		1868	Demolished 1944
Frant	Benhall Mill^[19]	Post		1818	1880s, gone by 1900
Frant
Friston	Friston Mill	Post			Blown down January 1926.^[20]

G

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Glynde		Post		1807	Moved to Blackboys 1868
Glynde		Hollow Post		Mid-19th century	Moved to High Salvington 2007
Glynde	Glyndebourne Mill Ringmer Mill	Post	1724	1700	Collapsed 1925
Guestling	Old Mill Pickham Farm Mill	post	1813
Guestling	Guestling mill Jenner's Mill Down Mill Fairlight Mill	Smock		1859	Demolished c. 1918

H

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Hailsham	Upper Mill	Post
Hailsham	South Common Mill	Post		1691^[21]	Standing in 1711, gone by 1735.
Hailsham	Lower Mill Hamlin's Mill	Smock		1834	Burnt down November 1923
Hailsham	Harebeating Mill Upper Mill	Post	1823	1823	Collapsed 1934. Modern house built on roundhouse. Windmill World
Hamsey		Post	1724	1724	1724
Hamsey	Offham Mill Racehill Mill Steeres Mill	Smock
Hankham			1724	1724	1813
Hastings	Summerfield's Mill
Hastings	French's Mill Croft Road Mill	Smock		1799	Moved to Silverhill, St Leonards c. 1838
Hastings	Priory Road Mill #1
Hastings	Priory Road Mill #2
Hastings	Priory Road Mill #3
Hastings	Priory Road Mill #4
Hastings	Priory Road Mill #5
Hastings	Town Mill
Hastings	Six sailed mill	Post
Heathfield	Sandy Cross Mill	Post		1842	Demolished 1916
Heathfield	Broad Oak Mill	Post		1842	Burnt down 11 March 1890
Heathfield	Mutton Hall Mill	Post		1805	Demolished 1891
Heathfield	Cade Street Mill Chapman's Town Mill	Smock			Gone by 1936
Heathfield	Punnetts Town Mill	Post			Burnt down 1856
Heathfield	Punnetts Town Mill Blackdown Mill Cherry Clack Mill	Smock		1856	Windmill World
Heathfield	Punnetts Town Saw Mill	Smock		1862	Demolished 1934
Heathfield	Alexandra Road	Wind wheel			c. 1910
Heathfield	Punnetts Town	Wind wheel		c. 1908	Dismantled 1916
Hellingly	Old Mill North Street Mill	Post		1781	Blown down 1908
Herstmonceux	Windmill Hill Mill	Post
Herstmonceux	Windmill Hill Mill	Post		c. 1814	Windmill World
Herstmonceux	Bodle Street Green Mill	Post		1780s
Herstmonceux	Cowbeech Mill Erry's Mill	Smock	1823	1820	Demolished c. 1919 Windmill World
Hooe	Hooe Common Mill	Post	1813		Demolished by 1934^[22]
Hooe	Hooe Common Mill	Smock
Horham		Smock			Moved to Punnetts Town 1866

I - L

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Icklesham	Telegraph Hill Mill	Smock		1834	Demolished c. 1922
Icklesham	Village Mill	Post
Icklesham	Hogg Hill Mill	Post		1790	Windmill World
Iden		Post
Iford		Sunk Post		1155	1155
Kingston	Kingston Mill Ashcombe mill	Post		1832	Blown down, March 1916
Kingston	Kingston Mill Ashcombe mill	Post		2009^[23]	Facsimile of original mill, for residential and electricity generation purposes.
Kingston	Old Duck Mill	Smock		1802	Collapsed 1891 Windmill World
Laughton	Laughton Mill		1724	1724	1724
Lewes	Town Mill	Smock		1802	Moved to new site, c. 1818 (Shelley's Mill). Windmill World
Lewes	Shelly's Mill	Smock		c. 1818	Demolished 1922
Lewes	Southern Mill	Post		c. 1785	Demolished c. 1912
Lewes	Spital Mill	Post		1770	Burnt down May 1885
Lewes	Malling Mill	Post		1625	Burnt down 8 September 1908
Lewes	King Harry's Mill	Post		1264	1264
Lewes	Smart's Mill
Lewes	Southover Mill				Blown down 1888
Little Horsted	Old Mill

M - N

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Mark Cross	Walter's Mill	Tower		1845	Windmill World
Mayfield	Luggers Crouch Mill			1795^[24]	1825
Mayfield	Gravil Hill Mill			1711^[25]	1720^[26]
Mayfield	Argos Hill Mill	Post		1835	Windmill World
Newenden^[27]	pumping mill	Trestle
Newhaven	Bolen's Mill				Burnt down 1844
Newhaven		Smock		1844	Moved to North Chailey
Newhaven		Post
Newick	Old Mill
Ninfield	Ashburnham Mill	Post		1809	Standing 1936, demolished by September 1937^[28]
Ninfield	Lunsford's Cross Mill Thorne Mill	Smock		c. 1870	Demolished 1907
Northiam	Old mill	Post	1795	1795	Burnt down 1800
Northiam	High Park Mill Millcorner Mill	Post		1800	Demolished 1949
Nutley	Nutley Mill	Post		c. 1817	Windmill World

O - P

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Ore	White Mill Cheale's Mill	Smock	1813 1823	1813	Burnt down May 1900
Ore	Black Mill Down Mill	Smock		1855	Demolished c. 1918
Patcham		Post	1724	1620^[29]	1791
Patcham	Ballard's Mill	Smock		c. 1780	Demolished c. 1900
Patcham	Waterhall Mill	Tower		1885	Windmill World
Peasemarsh		Smock			Standing 1936
Pett	Pett Mill	Post		1781	Moved to Icklesham, 1790
Piddinghoe	Peddinghoe Mill		1724	1724	1724
Playden	Black Mill				Standing c. 1915^[30]
Playden	Old Mill	Post			Moved to Appledore, Kent by 1819
Playden	Playden Mill
Playden		Smock
Playden		Post			Standing 1936
Polegate	Ovenden's Mill Mockett's Mill	Tower		1817	Windmill World
Portslade	East Hill Mill	Post		1837	1837
Portslade	Copperas Gap Mill	Post		1820	Demolished 1882
Pevensey	Blackness Mill			1778	1779

R - S

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Ringmer	Broyle Mill	Post			Burnt down 1905
Ripe	Old Mill		1724 1813	1724	1813
Rodmell				1199	1199
Rodmell	Old Mill	Post	1813	c. 1801	Demolished 12 January 1912
Rottingdean	Dudeney's Hill Mill	Post	1783 1813	1773	1818, possibly moved to Whitehawk Hill, Brighton
Rottingdean	Beacon Mill New Mill	Smock		1802	Windmill World
Rottingdean		Smock
Rye	Wilkinson's Mill
Rye		Smock			Moved to Punnetts Town 1862
Rye		Post	1596	1596	Gone by 1758
Rye	Old Mill	Post		1758	Replaced by smock mill 1824
Rye	New mill Gibbet Mill Tillingham Mill Barry's Mill	Smock		1824	Burnt down 13 June 1930 Windmill World
Salehurst	Silverhill Mill
Seaford	Sutton Mill	Post
Sidley	Sidley Mill			1723^[31]	Burnt down 1797
Sidley	Sidley Mill Pankhurst's Mill	Smock		1798	Moved to Leigh, Kent, 1928
St Leonards	Tivoli Old Mill	Post	1813
St Leonards	Tivoli New Mill
St Leonards	Silverhill Mill	Smock		c. 1838	Burnt down 1867
St Leonards	Draper's Mill Silverhill Mill	Smock		1868	Demolished 1966
Stone Cross	Stone Cross Mill Blackness Mill White Mill^[32]	Tower		1876	Windmill World
Stone Cross	Black Mill	Post

U - W

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Uckfield	Old Mill
Udimore	Udimore Mill	Post			Demolished 1922
Wadhurst	Cousley Wood Mill				Standing 1885^[33]
Wadhurst	Riseden Mill	Post	1823	1821	Collapsed 1910 Windmill World
Wadhurst	Butcher's Wood Mill White's Mill			1866	1894
Wadhurst	Bestbeech Hill Mill Standen's Mill		1795	1795	Standing 1801, possibly moved to Riseden by 1821^[34]
Warbleton	Summer Hill Mill	Post		c. 1825	Demolished August 1936
Warbleton	Chapman's Mill	Smock		1838	Struck by lightning 16 July 1880
Wartling	Wartling Mill
Wartling	Boreham Street Mill	Post	1813
West Blatchington	West Blatchington Mill	Smock	1823	1823	Windmill World
Westfield	Church Mill	1724	1724	1724
Westfield	White Mill
Westfield	North Mill				One of the Westfield mills burnt down 5 November 1908^[35]
Westham	Westham Mill
Westham		Hollow Post		1860	Moved to Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, 1975
Whatlington	Whatlington Mill Old Mill			1849	1849
Willingdon	Old Mill		1813
Winchelsea				1297^[36]	1297
Winchelsea	Iham Mill	Post	1813	1760	1813, moved to new site by 1823
Winchelsea	St Leonard's Mill	Post		c. 1823	Blown down 16 October 1987

Locations formerly within East Sussex

For windmills in Lamberhurst see List of windmills in Kent.

Sources

Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is Book: Brunnarius, Martin. 1979. The Windmills of Sussex. Philimore. Chichester. 0-85033-345-8. or Book: Hemming, Peter. 1936. Windmills in Sussex. C W Daniel. London. Online version

Maps

• 1596 Robert Morden
• 1724 Richard Budgen
• 1795 Gardner & Gream
• 1813 Ordnance Survey
• 1823 C & G Greenwood

Notes and References

1. News: Down Mill crashes after 230 years. Bexhill-on-Sea Observer . 7 Aug 1965.
2. Book: Dawes, H T. 1988. The Windmills and Millers of Brighton. Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society. Brighton. 0263-5151.
3. Hemming incorrectly describes this as a smock mill.
4. Web site: Introduction to Roedean and Rottingdean . My Brighton and Hove . 2008-10-19.
5. Web site: St George's Road . My Brighton and Hove . 2008-10-19.
6. Web site: Montpelier & Clifton Hill Conservation Area Character Statement . Brighton & Hove City Council (Design & Conservation Department) . 20 October 2005 . PDF . 2 . 31 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082203/http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/sites/brighton-hove.gov.uk/files/downloads/conservation/Character_Area_Montpelier_Clifton__Final.pdf . 19 August 2014 . live .
7. Web site: Windmills of Albion Hill . My Brighton and Hove . 2008-10-19.
8. Web site: Highcroft Villas . My Brighton and Hove . 2008-10-19.
9. Web site: Highcroft Villas . My Brighton and Hove . 2008-10-19.
10. Web site: Round Hill . My Brighton and Hove . 2008-10-19.
11. Web site: East Grinstead - A Brief History . East Grinstead Town Council . 2008-10-18.
12. Web site: Lost Mills Around East Grinstead . The Weald . 2009-10-19.
13. Web site: Lost Mills Around East Grinstead . The Weald . 2009-10-19.
14. Web site: Lost Mills Around East Grinstead . The Weald . 2009-10-19.
15. Web site: Lost Mills Around East Grinstead . The Weald . 2009-10-19.
16. Web site: THE LOST WINDMILLS OF SUSSEX . Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society . 2008-10-17.
17. Web site: John Dengate . dengates.com . 2008-10-19.
18. Web site: Mill (als Windmill) House Mount Ephraim Framfield . The Weald . 2009-10-19.
19. Web site: Benhall Windmill . Sussex Mills Group . 2 June 2006.
20. News: Old Sussex landmark destroyed . British Pathé . January 1926 . 20 November 2012.
21. Book: Salzmann, L.F. . The History of the Parish of Hailsham, The Abbey of Otham and the Priory of Michelham . Farncombe & Co . London . 1901. 255.
22. Book: Thurston Hopkins, R. Robert Thurston Hopkins . 1934. Old Watermills and Windmills. 181–205, 209–221. Phillip Allan & Co Ltd. London.
23. Web site: Ashcombe Windmill . Sussex Mills Group . 30 July 2009.
24. Web site: Luckhurst (als Luggers) Crouch Scotsford Hill Mayfield . The Weald.org. 2008-10-19.
25. Web site: Rotherfield, The Story of Some Wealden Manors . The Weald.org. 2008-10-19.
26. Web site: Rotherfield, The Story of Some Wealden Manors . The Weald.org. 2008-10-19.
27. Part of the parish was formerly in Sussex
28. Web site: Ninfield Windmill. Sussex Mills Group. 2008-10-19.
29. Web site: Old Mill Close, Patcham . My Brighton and Hove . 2008-10-19.
30. Web site: Postcards of Sussex Mills . Sussex Mills Group . 2008-10-17.
31. Web site: STOCKS GREEN WINDMILL . https://archive.today/20121223225950/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=497973 . dead . 2012-12-23 . English Heritage . 2008-10-19 .
32. Web site: Stone Cross Windmill . Stone Cross Mill Trust . 12 April 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100726125429/http://www.stonecrosswindmill.org.uk/ . 26 July 2010 .
33. Web site: More on Windmills. Wadhurst History Society. 2008-10-19.
34. Web site: Riseden Mill . Wadhurst History Society . 2008-10-19.
35. Web site: Westfield . VillageNet.co.uk . 2008-10-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081204092947/http://www.villagenet.co.uk/rotherlevels/villages/westfield.php . 2008-12-04 . dead .
36. Web site: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE WINDMILL . Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society . 2008-10-18.