List of windmills in Essex explained

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current Ceremonial county of Essex.

Locations

A

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Abbess Roding		Post		1381	1381
Alphamstone		Post	1777	c. 1760	1875
Althorne			1825	1825	1825
Ardleigh	John de Bois Mill Johnnyboy's Mill	Post	1777 1799 1804	1636	Demolished c. 1805, replaced by new mill on same site.
Ardleigh	John de Bois Mill Johnnyboy's Mill	Post	1805 1824 1840 1893	c. 1805	Demolished 1898
Ardleigh	Webb's Mill	Post		1791	1830, possibly moved to Colchester (Old Heath Road)
Ardleigh	Burnt Heath Mill	Post		1800	Demolished 1891
Arkesden		Post			Gone by 1387
Arkesden			1724	1724	1724
Ashdon		Post		1388	1394
Ashdon	Church End Mill	Post	1724 1777 1805	1693	Moved to Nuts Green c. 1812
Ashdon	Bragg's Mill Bartlow Hamlet Mill Stevington End Mill	Post		1757	Windmill World
Ashdon	Nuts Green Mill	Post	1825	c. 1812	1839
Ashdon	Radwinter Road Mill	Tower	1825	1794	Demolished c. 1900
Asheldham			1678	1662	1678
Asheldham	Approximately	Post	1825	1825	1876
Ashen		Post	1825	1825	1876
Aveley		Post		1330	1330
Aveley	(second mill)	Post		1330	1330
Aveley		Post	1678 1903	1651	Demolished c. 1917
Aythorpe Roding		Post	1724	1615	1724
Aythorpe Roding	Aythorpe Roding Mill	Post		1779	Windmill World

B

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Bardfield Saling		Post		1823^[1]	Demolished 17 September 1965
Barling	Barling Mill	Post	1724	1724	1724
Barling	Barling Mill	Smock		1760	Demolished c. 1946
Barnston	Barnston Mill	Post	1777 1825	1777	Demolished September 1870
Belchamp Otten		Post		1282	1285
Belchamp Otten		Post	1777 1825	1765	Demolished c. 1881
Belchamp Otten		Tower		1838	Demolished c. 1959
Belchamp St Paul		Post		1222	1222
Belchamp St Paul		Post		1815	Demolished 1911
Belchamp Walter	Cottonbury Mill	Post	1777	1777	1883, demolished by 1893. Converted to bakery. Trestle inside remaining roundhouse. Windmill World
Belchamp Walter				1560	1580
Belchamp Walter	Orbell's Mill		1805	1805	1832
Berden		Post		1274	1432
Berden		Post	1678 1724	1597	1724
Berden		Post		1815	1896, gone by 1902
Birch	Digby's Mill	Post	1724 1777	1724	Moved to Layer de la Haye in 1855
Birch	Royce's Mill	Post	1825	1786	Demolished 1962
Birchanger			1805	1774	1863
Birdbrook		Post	1777	1777	Moved c. 1798 (to new site in Birdbrook?)
Birdbrook				1555	1555
Birdbrook			1805	1805	1805
Blackmore		Post	1777	1777	Burnt down 6 December 1875
Black Notley	Red Mill	Post		1785	1840, gone by 1845
Bobbingworth				1510	1510
Bobbingworth	Bovinger Mill Brock's Mill	Post	1678 1724	1640	Blown down 1923
Bocking		Post		1405	1405
Bocking				1617	1624, gone by 1655
Bocking		Post	1724	1720	Moved to Bocking Churchstreet 1830
Bocking	Bocking Churchstreet Mill	Post		1830	Windmill World
Bocking	Lambert's Mill	Post		1752	Moved c 1854 (to Broom Hills, Braintree)
Bocking		Post	1724	1685	Standing 1769, replaced by smock mill on same site by 1773
Bocking	Bocking Tower Mill	Smock		1773	Burnt down 15 March 1807
Bocking		Smock		1823	Moved c. 1829 to Greenstead Green, Halstead
Bocking	Coggeshall Road Mill Stock's Mill Playle's Mill	Post		1787	Demolished 1876
Bocking	Pumping mill	Trestle	1875	1914	Demolished by 1911
Boreham		Post		1813	Demolished c. 1894
Boxted		Post	1825	1815	Demolished c. 1863
Bradfield	North side of Mill Lane Approximately	Post	1678 1724 1777 1825	1678	1832
Bradfield	South Side of Mill Lane Approximately	Post	1825	1825	1838, gone by 1847
Bradfield	Daniel's Mill	Smock		1846	Burnt down November 1857
Bradfield	Pattrick's Mill	Tower		1845	Demolished 1934
Bradwell on Sea		Post		1291	1378
Bradwell on Sea		Post	1678 1700 1777	1630	Blown down 24 December 1791
Bradwell on Sea	Curry's Mill	Smock		1792	Burnt down c. 1900
Braintree	Griffin's End Mill	Post		1810	Demolished 1883 Windmill World
Braintree	Broom Hills Mill Digby's Mill	Post		c. 1855	Demolished 1907
Brightlingsea	Stammer's Mill	Post		1827	Demolished 1913
Brightlingsea	Hurst Green Mill Approximately	Post		1521	1758^[2]
Broomfield		Smock		1806	1880
Broxted		Post		1815	Demolished c. 1953
Bulmer		Post		1265	1265
Bulmer	Armsey Mill Bulmer Tye Mill	Post	1777 1825	1775	Moved to Assington, Suffolk c. 1869^[3]
Bulmer	Bulmer Mill Ballingdon Mill	Smock		1793	Demolished August 1928 Windmill World
Bulphan		Post	1678	1455	1678
Bulphan				1838	1838
Burnham on Crouch	North Mill Pannell's Mill	Smock	1805	1784	Demolished c. 1900
Burnham on Crouch	South Mill Town Mill Stagg's Mill	Post		1796	Demolished c. 1900
Buttsbury		Post		1259	1259
Buttsbury			1844	1844	1844

C

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Canewdon		Post	1777	1669	Burnt down c. 1880
Canewdon		Post		1792	1883
Castle Hedingham	Ruffle's Mill	Post	1777 1805 1825	1765	1878
Castle Hedingham	Digby's Mill	Post	1805 1825	1794	1838
Chelmsford	Thomas Strutt's Mill		1724 1749	1710	1749
Chelmsford	Moulsham Mill	Post	1724 1777	1717	1844
Chelmsford		Smock		c. 1810	Moved to new site c. 1824 (Rainsford mill)
Chelmsford	Rainsford Mill	Smock		c. 1824	Demolished 1875
Chelmsford	Widford Mill	Post		1734	1858
Chelmsford	pumping mill, River Chelmer
Chignall Smealy		Post		1333	1333
Chigwell		Post		1318	1318
Chigwell	Chigwell Row Mill	Post	1768	c. 1610	1768
Chigwell	Chigwell Row Mill	Post		1773	Burnt down July 1842
Chigwell	Mount Pleasant Mill		1825	1813	1829
Chipping Ongar		Post		1294	1372
Chrishall	Crawley End Mill	Post	1724	1724	Demolished c. 1890
Clavering	Clavering Windmill	Post	1724	1625	1848
Clavering	South Mill	Tower		1757	Windmill World
Clavering	North Mill	Tower		1811	Windmill World
Colchester	Lexden Road Mill (east)	Post	1678 1777	1678	1819
Colchester	Lexden Road Mill (west)	Post	1678 1777	1678	1832
Colchester	Butt Mill	Post	1724 1767 1777	1660	Demolished c. 1782
Colchester	Butt Mill	Post		1782	Burnt down 29 March 1787
Colchester	Butt Mill	Post		1793	Demolished c. 1881
Colchester	Mersea Road Mill	Post	1724 1767 1777	1724	Demolished 1813
Colchester	Mersea Road Mill	Tower		1813	Demolished 1859
Colchester	Military Road Mill	Post		1724	Demolished 1862
Colchester	Golden Noble Hill Mill (south) Middle Mill	Post		1699	Moved to new site on Golden Noble Hill 1838
Colchester	Golden Noble Hill Mill (north)	Post		1838	Demolished 1862
Colchester	Old Heath Road Mill	Post		1774	Blown down 11 June 1834
Colchester	Magdalen Green Mill	Post		1801	1813, possibly moved to Shrub End 1820
Colchester	Distillery Mill	Tower	1777 1893	1748	1893, gone by 1896
Colchester	St Ann's Mill		1678	1579	1678, gone by 1683
Colchester	St Ann's Mill	Post	1724	1683	Burnt down June 1767
Colchester	St Ann's Mill	Tower		1767	1865
Colchester	Mile End Mill (east)	Post	1777	1764	Burnt down May 1807
Colchester	Mile End Mill (east)	Post		1807	1896
Colchester	Mile End Mill (west)	Post	1777	1777	1779, gone by 1806
Colchester	Shrub End Mill Bottle End Mill	Post		1820	Demolished 1871
Colchester	Greenstead Mill	Post	1777	1784	Demolished c. 1907
Colchester	Scarlett's Mill		1724 1777	1706	1800, possibly moved to Magdalen Green
Colchester	Approximately		1724	1724	1724
Colchester	Clubb's Mill	Trestle		1832	Blown down December 1836
Colchester	Clubb's Mill	Smock		1838	Blown down July 1852
Colchester	Old Heath Mill			1774	1780, possibly moved to Greenstead Mill
Colchester	East Bridge Mill			1795	Blown down November 1795
Colchester	Dunnages Mill			1833	Blown down June 1833
Colchester	Colchester Castle	Horizontal		1834	1834
Colchester	Brickfield (unknown exactly where)	Hollow post		c. 1890	c. 1890
Colchester	Oil Mill, St. Mary's			1656	1716
Colne Engaine		Tower		1880	Demolished c. 1921
Copford	Copford Mill	Post	1724 1777	1724	Demolished c. 1900
Cressing	Phillip's Mill	Post	1777	1777	Demolished c. 1900

D

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Danbury	Runsell Common Mill (east)	Post	1825 1844	1733	demolished c. 1897
Danbury	Runsell Common Mill (west)		1825 1844	1825	1856, gone by 1858
Danbury
Debden	Tendering's Mill		1724 1777	1660	1777
Debden	Debden Green Mill	Post		1719	Demolished c. 1920
Debden		Post	1724 1777	1724	Demolished c. 1796
Debden	Debden Windmill	Tower		1796	Windmill World
Dengie	Drainage mill			1842	1842
Dovercourt		Post		1353	1353
Dovercourt	Beacon Hill Mill	Post		1514	Blown down 20 January 1606
Dovercourt	Beacon Hill Mill	Post	1724	1606	Struck by lightning and demolished 26 June 1728
Dovercourt	Beacon Hill Mill	Post	1777	1777	1777, gone by 1805
Dovercourt	Mill Hill Mill (north west)	Post		1763	1793
Dovercourt	Mill Hill Mill (south east) Taylor's Mill Pattrick's Mill	Post		1821	1864, gone by 1875
Dovercourt	Pattrick's Mill	Post	1777 1825 1836	1777	Moved to new site in 1829
Dovercourt	Pattrick's mill	Post		1829	1866

E

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Earls Colne			1678	1678	1678
East Horndon		Post	1777	1736	Moved to Ingrave, May 1786
East Horndon		Post	1903	1832	Demolished c. 1905
East Tilbury		Post		1266	1266
East Tilbury		Smock		1862	Demolished c. 1939
East Tilbury	Muckingford Mill			1839	1843, gone by 1862
Elmdon		Post		1300	1315
Elmstead	Elmstead Mill	Post	1678 1725 1777 1805	1660	1810
Elsenham		Titt iron wind engine^[4]
Epping		Post		1303	1635
Epping	Epping Mill Eagle's Mill	Post		1582	1862

F

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Farnham		Post	1825	1574	Demolished 1807
Feering			1678	1678
Felsted	Cock Green Mill	Post	1777	1772	Demolished c. 1916
Felsted	Felsted Common Mill	Post	1777	1684	1845, moved to new site by 1875
Felsted	Felsted Common Mill	Post		1875	Demolished c. 1919
Finchingfield		Post		1254	1495
Finchingfield	Duck End Mill	Post	1777	1756	Windmill World
Finghingfield			1777	1777	1777
Finchingfield		Post	1777 1805	1766	Demolished c. 1817
Finchingfield				1580	1580
Finchingfield	Parsonage Lane Mill Daw Street Mill	Post	1825	1787	Demolished c. 1914
Finchingfield	Monk's Mill	Post		1822	Demolished c. 1916
Finchingfield		Post	1825	1790	Demolished c. 1826
Finchingfield	Jekyll's Farm Mill			1814	1814
Fingringhoe	East Fingringhoe Mill		1724 1777	1723	1777
Fingringhoe	Stammer's Mill	Post	1825	1788	Moved to Brightlingsea 1827
Fobbing		Post		1557	1899
Fordham		Post	1893	1836	1893
Foulness		Post		1802	1914, gone by 1918
Foxearth		Post	1825	1817	Demolished 1868
Fyfield		Post		1280	1280
Fyfield		Post	1678 1724	1678	Blown down 1912

G

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Goldhanger				1781	1875
Good Easter	Hockley's Mill	Post	1777	1769	1878, gone by 1886
Good Easter	Everett's Mill	Smock		1815	Demolished c. 1910
Gosfield		Post		1266	1266
Gosfield			1777	1775	1777, gone by 1799
Grays Thurrock		Post	1724	1624	1739
Great Baddow	Barnes Mill	Post	1825 1874	1792	1876
Great Baddow	Upper Mill	Post		1602	Replaced by smock mill on same site c. 1827
Great Baddow	Upper Mill Sewell's Mill	Smock		c. 1827	Demolished February 1923
Great Baddow	Lower Mill Steven's mill	Smock		1826	1888
Great Bardfield		Post		1298	1384
Great Bardfield	Gibraltar Mill	Tower	1724 1777	1704	Windmill World
Great Bardfield	Park Hall Farm Mill	Post		1841	1856
Great Bentley		Post		1755	Demolished 1891
Great Bromley		Post	1724 1777	1724	Demolished 1895
Great Burstead	Bell Hill Mill (east)	Post	1724 1777 1805 1903	1537	Collapsed December 1928 Windmill World
Great Burstead	Bell Hill Mill (west)	Post	1777 1805 1903	1777	Demolished c. 1892
Great Burstead	Outwood Farm Mill	Post		1835	1859
Great Canfield		Post		1386	1424
Great Canfield		Post		1676	1797, gone by 1826
Great Canfield		Post		1826	Demolished 1916
Great Chesterford	West Mill	Smock	1825 1836 1893 1905	1825	Demolished 21 October 1909
Great Chesterford	East Mill	Smock	1836	1836	1886, gone by 1893
	Bull Hill Farm Mill	Post		1807	1807, possibly moved to new site in Great Clacton by 1824
Great Clacton		Post	1824	1824	Demolished c. 1918
Great Coggeshall			Post		Gone by 1376
Great Coggeshall	Thompson's Mill	Post	1777	1734	1833
Great Coggeshall	New Mill Prior's Mill	Post		1802	1828
Great Coggeshall	Tilkey Mill (south)	Post		1778	Demolished c. 1823
Great Coggeshall	Tilkey Mill (north)	Post		1820	Burnt down 4 March 1879
Great Dunmow	Stowles Green Mill	Post	1724	1661	Moved to Widford 1734
Great Dunmow	Dunmow Down Mill	Post		1730	Demolished c. 1807
Great Dunmow	Royal Oak Mill	Post	1777 1805 1825	1777	1825
Great Dunmow	Joe Lambert's Mill Town Mill	Smock		1807	Demolished 1896
Great Dunmow	Church End Mill	Tower		1822	Windmill World
Great Easton		Post	1777	1752	Demolished 1915
Great Henny		Post	1805	1792	1811
Great Holland		Post		1291	1294
Great Holland				1714	Demolished 1839
Great Holland		Smock		1840	Demolished 1952 Windmill World
Great Horkesley		Post	1825	1821	Demolished 1870
Great Maplestead				1765	1765
Great Leighs		Post	1724 1777	1616	Demolished c. 1912
Great Oakley		Post	1678 1724	1678	Demolished c. 1904
Great Oakley		Post		1802	Demolished July 1821
Great Saling				c. 1547	c. 1547
Great Sampford		Post		1288	1288
Great Sampford	Sparepenny Lane Mill	Post	1825	1803	1890
Great Sampford	Pettit's Mill Day's Mill	Smock		1817	Demolished c. 1914 Windmill World
Great Tey		Post		1328	1328
Great Tey	Tey Hall Green Mill		1777	1740	1782, gone by 1795
Great Tey	Sparke's Mill Sach's Mill	Post		1792	Burnt down, January 1860
Great Totham	Brown's Mill	Post	1724	1718	Demolished 1911
Great Totham		Post		1815	1822
Great Totham	Frost's Mill Pulford's Mill King's Mill	Smock		1817	Demolished 1911
Great Waltham	Chatham Green Mill	Post		1829	Demolished c. 1902, roundhouse survives as of . Windmill World
Great Waltham	Ford End Mill	Post		1812	1813, moved to Chatham Green 1829?
Great Yeldham		Post	1678 1825	1524	1844
Greenstead		Post		1349	1349

H

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Hadstock		Post	1777	1773	Demolished 1836
Hadstock^[5]		Tower		1836	Demolished 1926
Halstead	West Mill	Post	1724 1805	1701	Struck by lightning 22 August 1800 and subsequently demolished
Halstead	Box Mill	Post	1777	1775	Blown down 29 April 1882
Halstead	East Mill	Post		1841	1876
Halstead	East Mill	Smock		1800	Burnt down 24 December 1862
Halstead	Greenstead Green Mill	Post		1784	Demolished c. 1830
Halstead	Greenstead Green Mill	Smock		1830	1939, gone by 1945
Halstead	Bois Hall Mill	Post	1724	1724	1770
Halstead	Frost's Mill North Mill	Smock		c. 1790	Demolished 1947 Windmill World
Halstead	Approximately		1724	1682	1736
Harlow		Post		1287	1343
Harlow	Foster Street Mill	Post	1805 1825	1799	1874
Harlow	Potter Street Mill	Post	1825	1825	Demolished 1891
Harlow	John Barnard's Mill		1825	1825	1828, gone by 1831
Hatfield Broad Oak		Post		Before 1216	1633
Hatfield Broad Oak	Town Mill	Post		1530	1547
Hatfield Broad Oak	Town Mill	Post	1724 1777 1825	1683	Blown down 26 October 1881
Hatfield Broad Oak		Post^[6]		1443
Hatfield Broad Oak	Hatfield Heath Mill		1678	1678
Hatfield Broad Oak	Down Hall Mill	Post	1777	1715	1777, moved to Matching by 1799
Hatfield Broad Oak	Hatfield Heath Mill Merchaw's Mill Mawkhaw's Mill	Tower		1838	Demolished 1909
Hatfield Peverel		Post		1320	1320
Hatfield Peverel	Gardener's Mill Hatfield Mill	Smock		1824	Demolished 1842
Hazeleigh		Post	1724 1777	1724	Blown down 28 April 1892
Helions Bumpstead		Post		1289	1349
Helions Bumpstead		Tower	1749 1777 1805	1749	Demolished c. 1900
Hempstead		Post	1678	1615	1678
Hempstead		Post		1845	1898, gone by 1912
Henham		Post		1202	1328
Henham		Post	1678 1896	1678	Demolished December 1902
Heybridge	Two pumping windmills, Approximately			1825	1825
Heydon				1630	1630
High Easter	Fuller's Mill Webster's Mill Shead's Mill Welford's Mill	Post	1777	1680	Demolished 1936 Windmill World
High Garrett	Pumping mill		1904	1875	1914
High Ongar				1586	1586
High Ongar		Smock	1724 1777	1706	Demolished 1897 Windmill World
High Roding		Post		1386	1386
High Roding		Post	1805	1797	Demolished c. 1911
Hockley		Post		1295	1295
Hockley				1590	1687
Horndon on the Hill		Post		1286	1286
Horndon on the Hill		Post	1805	1799	1805
Horndon on the Hill		Post		1826	Demolished 1917 Windmill World

I, K

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Ingatestone		Post		1564	1753
Ingatestone	Mill Green Mill, Fryerning	Post	1777	1759	Windmill World
Ingrave		Post		1791	1826, Moved to East Horndon by 1832
Kelvedon		Post		1294	1294
Kelvedon		Smock	1805	1784	Demolished c. 1875
Kelvedon Hatch	Purkis’ Mill	Smock		1768	Demolished 1920
Kirby le Soken				c. 1837	1890, gone by 1893

L

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Laindon			1678	1617	1695
Lamarsh		Smock	1825	1825	1876
Langham		Post	1805	1800	Moved to new site in Langham 1800
Langham		Post	1805	1800	1803, gone by 1817
Langham	Whiley's Mill	Smock		1819	Demolished 1907
Latchingdon		Post		1310	1310
Latchingdon	Lawland Mill	Post	1678 1724 1777	1633	1807
Latchingdon				1873	1873
Latton					Gone by 1616
Latton	Latton Mill		1825	1824	1835, demolished to enable construction of London – Cambridge railway
Lawford		Post		1804	1816, gone by 1824
Lawford		Tower	1825	1783	1914, gone by 1918
Lawford		Post	1825	1802	1825
Layer de la Haye	Cooper's Mill	Post	1825	1801	Moved to West Mersea 1833
Layer de la Haye		Post		1855	1875, gone by 1886
Lindsell		Post		1791	1826, replaced by smock mill by 1846
Lindsell		Smock		1846	Demolished c. 1906
Little Baddow	Richardson's Mill	Post	1724	1655	1757
Little Baddow	Cranie's Mill		1813	1819	Moved to Danbury by 1824
Little Bardfield	Paul's Mill	Post	1724 1777 1805	1572	Burnt down March 1805
Little Bardfield	Paul's Mill	Post		1807	1870
Little Bardfield	Hawkspur Green Mill	Post	1805	1805	Collapsed c. 1871
Little Bardfield	Hawkspur Green Mill	Smock		1876	Blown down c. 1928
Little Bentley		Post	1825 1904	1818	Demolished 1905
Little Canfield		Post	1700 1825	1590	Moved to other site in Little Canfield c. 1809
Little Canfield		Post		1809	Demolished 1930
Little Chishill^[7]	Little Chishill Mill	Post	1676 1724	1676	1819
Little Chishill	Little Chishill Mill	Post		1819
Little Clacton	Foot's Farm Mill	Post	1777 1805	1756	1805, possibly moved to Great Clacton c. 1807
Little Dunmow	Throws Mill	Post		1875	Demolished 1913 Windmill World
Little Hallingbury				1838	1856
Little Laver		Post		1579	1797
Little Laver		Post		1797	Converted to Composite mill 1850
Little Laver		Composite		1850	Demolished December 1963
Little Leighs				1662	1662
Little Maplestead				1645	1645
Little Maplestead	Purlshill Mill			1830	1874, gone by 1887
Little Sampford	Pettit's Mill	Post	1724 1777 1805 1893	1724	1893
Little Sampford	Starling's Mill Thaxted Road Mill	Post	1805	1796	1880, gone by 1902
Little Stambridge		Post	1893	1814	1893, gone by 1895
Little Tey				1861	1861
Little Totham	Barrow Hill Mill	Post		1703	Blown down 30 June 1831
Little Totham	Smith's Mill	Smock		1831	Demolished 1892
Little Waltham		Post	1777 1805	1760	1845
Little Warley		Smock	1893	1832	Blown down 8 January 1866
Little Yeldham		Post		1263	1263

M

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Maldon	Fullbridge Mill	Smock		1799	1834, gone by 1841
Maldon	Herbert's Mill	Smock		1826	Moved to Stebbing, December 1842
Manuden		Post		c. 1340	c. 1340
Manuden	Maggots End Mill	Smock	1805 1825	1762	Demolished 1945
Margaret Roding		Post	1724 1777	1725	Burnt down May 1910
Margaretting			1678	1666	1678, gone by 1748
Marks Tey				1624	1624
Mashbury		Post	1724 1777 1805 1825	1724	Blown down 28 January 1825
Mashbury		Smock		1836	Burnt down 28 November 1896 Windmill World
Matching	Down Hall Mill	Post	1805 1825	1799	1843, gone by 1874
Matching	Matching Tye Mill	Post	1825	1825	Demolished 1880 Windmill World
Mayland	Cardnell's Mill	Post		1817	Demolished c. 1914
Mayland	Douce's Mill	Post		1826	1831, possibly moved to Middleton, Suffolk by 1839
Mistley	Rigby's Mill	Smock	1777	1775	1778
Moreton		Post	1777	1767	Demolished 1964
Mount Bures	Newman's Mill	Post	1825	1822	Demolished c. 1917
Mount Bures	Doe's Mill	Post	1825	1811	Demolished 1953
Mountnessing		Post	1678 1724	1477	1760
Mountnessing	Mountnessing Mill	Post		1807	Windmill World
Mucking				1654	1686

N

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Navestock		Post		1355	1355
Nazeing		Post		1802	1875
Newport			1805 1825	1805	1876
Newport		Smock	1805 1825	1805	1876
Newport		Vertical axis mill
North Weald		Post		1281	1281
Norton Mandeville		Post		1297	1297

O, P

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Orsett		Post	1678 1724 1777 1805	1678	1887, gone by 1893 Windmill World
Orsett	Baker Street Mill	Smock		1796	Windmill World
Pebmarsh	Pebmarsh Mills Approximately	Post		1792	1814
Pebmarsh		Smock		1814	1852
Pebmarsh		Post		1872	Burnt down 26 April 1895
Peldon		Post		1282	1282
Peldon	Strood Mill	Post	1777 1805 1825	1777	Demolished c. 1906
Pitsea		Post	1678 1724 1777 1825	1586	Burnt down July 1891
Prittlewell		Post		1294	1309
Prittlewell	Milton Hall Mill Hamlet Mill	Post	1678 1777	1678	Demolished 1877
Prittlewell			1777	1777	1777, possibly moved to new site in Prittlewell by 1794
Prittlewell	Old Mill	Post	1825	1758	Demolished 1832
Prittlewell		Smock		1832	Demolished c. 1869
Prittlewell	New Mill	Post		1797	Demolished 1871
Purleigh	Gibcrack's	Post		1323	1323
Purleigh	Raven's Mill	Smock		1778	Demolished 1929
Purleigh	Mecklenburgh's Mill	Smock	1844	1844	1852, gone by 1854
Purleigh	Purleigh Barns Mill	Composite		1849	1893

Q, R

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Quendon		Post	1678	1678	Blown down October 1795
Quendon		Tower		1805	Demolished c. 1906
Radwinter	Grange Mill		1724 1805	1588	1805
Radwinter	East Mill	Post	1777 1825	1777	Demolished c. 1900
Radwinter	Lower Mill		1724	1701	Demolished 1732
Radwinter	North Mill	Smock		1799	Demolished 1920
Ramsden Bellhouse		Post	1678	1624	Blown down 22 November 1873
Ramsey				1807	Burnt down 9 January 1822
Ramsey	Ramsey Mill	Post		1842	Windmill World
Rawreth		Post		1574	1574
Rayleigh		Post		1310	1315
Rayleigh	Ruffles Mill	Post	1678 1724 1777	1678	Demolished late 1860s
Rayleigh		Post		1786	1877, demolished 1880s
Rayleigh		Post		1799	Demolished 1884
Rayleigh	Rayleigh Mill	Tower		1809	Windmill World
Rettendon	West Mill		1678 1724	1678	1730
Rettendon		Post	1678	1678	Burnt down December 1872
Ridgewell			1777	1777	1777
Rettendon		Post	1805	1805	Demolished c. 1904
Rettendon		Post		1848	Demolished c. 1922
Rivenhall	Sach's Mill Wither's Green Mill Withie's Farm Mill	Post	1825	1825	Demolished c. 1897
Rochford		Post		1274	1331
Rochford		Post		1810	Moved to Little Stambridge, 1814
Roxwell				1635	1635, gone by 1639
Roxwell		Post		1768	1895, gone by 1902
Roxwell	Pumping mill			1860	1919
Runwell		Post		1222	1222

S

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Saffron Walden				1514	1549
Saffron Walden			1777	1758	1777
Saffron Walden	Ruse's Mill	Smock		1785	Demolished 1955
Saffron Walden	Middleditch's Mill	Smock		1799	Demolished 1896
Saffron Walden	Copthall Mill	Smock		1828	Demolished c. 1896
Saffron Walden	Thaxted Road Mill	Post	1805 1825	1799	1830
Saffron Walden	Sewards End Mill	Post		1803	Demolished c. 1909
Shenfield		Post		1476	1476
Shenfield	Alexander's Mill	Post	1777 1805 1893	1777	Demolished or blown down c. 1870
Shenfield			1678 1724 1777	1678	1777
Shenfield	Tasker's Lane Mill	Smock	1893	1810	Demolished c. 1880
Sible Hedingham		Post	1678 1724 1777	1678	1789, gone by 1797
Shilveston		Post		1231	1231
Sible Hedingham	Cutmaple Mill Metson's Mill	Post		1775	Demolished 1956
Sible Hedingham		Post		1777	Blown down 1824
Sible Hedingham	Eley's Mill	Tower		1824	Demolished 1923
South Benfleet			1678	1678	1678
Southchurch		Post		1294	1294
Southminster				1585	1585
Southminster	Ratsborough Mill	Post	1678 1724 1777	1678	Burnt down November 1781
Southminster	West Mill	Smock	1805	1783	Burnt down c. 1889
Southminster	East Mill Cripplegate Mill	Smock		1790	Demolished 1929
Southminster	Moor Mill	Post	1678 1724	1562	1724
South Ockendon		Post		1295	1362
South Ockendon	South Ockendon Mill	Smock		1829	Collapsed 2 November 1977 Windmill World
South Shoebury			1678	1678
South Weald	Weald Mill			1662	1761, gone by 1777
South Weald	Warley Mill	Post	1805	1788	1829
South Weald	Bentley Mill	Post	1724 1777	1724	Moved to Chadwell Heath (Miss Bentley) c. 1820
South Weald		Tower		1821	1884
South Weald	Brook Street Mill Rush Mill	Post	1805	1778	Demolished 1913
Springfield		Post		1655	1655
Springfield	Arbour Lane Mill	Post	1777	1767	1792, gone by 1799
Springfield	Broomfield Mill	Post	1903	1782	1918
Springfield	Pease Hall Mill	Smoxk	1825	1816	Demolished c. 1932
Stambourne			1724	1724	1729, gone by 1771
Stambourne			1777	1777	1777
Stambourne			1805	1800	1815
Stambourne		Post	1840	1836	Blown down 3 December 1909
Stanford Rivers	Littlebury Mill	Post	1844	1781	1854
Stanford Rivers		1761 1777	1724	1703	Demolished 1797
Stanford Rivers	Shonks Mill	Post		1797	1862
Stanford Rivers	Toothill Mill	Post	1825	c. 1815	Demolished 1935
Stansted Mountfitchet	Quendon Road Mill (north)	Post	1724	1724	1866, gone by 1875
Stansted Mountfitchet	Quendon Road Mill (south)	Post		1788	1798, gone by 1808
Stansted Mountfitched	Stansted Mountfitchet Mill	Tower		1787	Windmill World
Stansted Mountfitchet	Wisbey's Mill	Smock	1840	1820	1887
Stapleford Abbotts		Post		1566	1655
Stapleford Abbotts	Passingford Mill		1777	1743	1777
Stapleford Abbotts	Passingford Mill	Post	1844	1779	Demolished c. 1857
Stapleford Tawney	Boyland's Oak Mill	Post		1846	Demolished 1923
Stebbing	Playle's Mill			1756	1757, demolished by 1770
Stebbing	Barrack Lane Mill	Post	1777	1754	Blown down 1821
Stebbing	Barrack Lane Mill	Post	1825	1824	1840
Stebbing	New Mill Chopping's Mill	Smock		1832	Demolished c. 1900
Stebbing	Bran End Mill	Smock		1842	Blown down March 1895
Stebbing	Custance's Mill	Post		1833	1896, gone by 1902
Steeple Bumpstead		Post		1392	1392
Steeple Bumpstead	Old Hall Mill	Post	1724 1777 1805	1724	1896, gone by 1905
Steeple Bumpstead	Suckling's Mill	Post		1836	1882, gone by 1886
Steeple Bumpstead	Coe's Mill		1825	1825	Demolished c. 1893
Stifford			1678	1678	1686
Stisted				1770	Burnt down August 1770
Stisted		Post		1778	1781
Stock		Post		1476	1476
Stock	Threadgold's Mill	Post		1779	Moved within Stock, 1845
Stock	Stock Mill		1733	1587	Demolished c. 1890
Stock		Post		1600	1784
Stock	Stock Mill	Tower		1816	Windmill World
Stock		Post		1845	Demolished c. 1890
St Osyth	Flag Mill	Post		1760	1855, gone by 1858
St Osyth			1777	1777	1777
Stow Maries		Post		1489	1682

T

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Takeley				Mid-13th century	Mid-13th century
Takeley				1601	1601
Takeley			1777 1805 1825	1777	1825
Takeley	Piper's Mill	Post	1905	1826	Demolished c. 1904
Takeley	Old Mill Clarke's Mill	Post		1776	Demolished c. 1899
Tendring	South Mill	Smock	1777 1825	1777	1844
Tendring		Tower	1825	1824	Demolished c. 1921
Terling				1698	1698
Terling	Terling Mill	Smock	1830		Windmill World
Thaxted	Hornham Mill	Post		1456	1456
Thaxted	Old Mill Camps's Mill	Post	1675 1724	1569	1830
Thaxted		Post		1790	1823
Thaxted	Newbiggin Mill Boyton End Mill Fox and Hounds Mill	Post	1675 1724	1623	1880, gone by 1893
Thaxted	Cutlers Green Mill	Post		1815	Blown down January 1870
Thaxted	Sibleys Green Mill	Post		1806	Demolished April 1877
Thaxted	John Webb's Mill Lowe's Mill	Tower		1804	Windmill World
Theydon Garnon	Theydon Garnon Mill			1664	1785
Theydon Mount		Post		1274	1274
Thorpe-le-Soken	Far Thorpe Green Mill	Post	1724 1777	1700	1805
Thorpe le Soken	Little Mill	Post	1678 1724 1777 1825	1678	Demolished 1906 Windmill World
Thorpe le Soken		Post	1825	1825	1787
Thorpe le Soken	Great Mill		1724	1724	1758
Thorrington		Post		1740	Blown down 16 December 1869
Tilty		Post	1724	1588	1730
Tollesbury	Sampson's Mill Golding's Mill Guyne's Mill Guisnes Mill Bourchier's Lodge Mill	Post	1724 1777	1724	1866
Tolleshunt	Oxley Green Mill Posford's Mill	Post		1802	Demolished c. 1920
Tolleshunt	Virley Mill Smith's Mill	Post		1793	Demolished c. 1900
Tolleshunt		Smock		1870	Collapsed 1914
Tolleshunt d'Arcy		Post		1282	1282
Tolleshunt d'Arcy			1678 1724	1678	1724
Tolleshunt Knights		Post		1764	Demolished 1775
Tolleshunt Knights		Post	1777 1825	1775	1864, gone by 1874
Tolleshunt Knights	Messing Maypole Mill Tiptree Mill	Tower	1777 1825	1775	Windmill World
Tolleshunt Major		Smock		1739	Demolished 1924
Toppesfield		Post		1252	1252
Toppesfield	Toppesfield Mill	Post		1677	Demolished 1888
Toppesfield	Haxell's Mill Hardy's Mill	Smock		1841	Burnt down July 1882
Toppesfield	Gainsford End Mill	Post	1805	1800	Demolished 1869
Toppesfield	Gainsford End Mill	Tower		1869	Windmill World

U, W

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Ugley		Post		1327	1327
Wakes Colne		Post	1777 1825	1765	Burnt down May 1856
Waltham Holy Cross	Sewardstone Mill		1700	1700	1700
Waltham Holy Cross	Honey Lane Mill	Post	1844	1826	Collapsed 25 August 1911
Walton on the Naze	Savage's Mill			1747	1808, demolished by 1820
Walton on the Naze	Archer's Mill	Post		1846	Demolished 1921 Windmill World
Weeley		Post		1844	Demolished c. 1922
Wenden Lofts	Lofts Mill	Post	1678 1724 1777 1825	1678	Demolished c. 1920
Wendens Ambo		Smock	1805 1825	1787	1889, later burnt down.
West Bergholt	Springett's Mill			1843	1871
West Horndon		Post		1466	1466
West Horndon	High Mill	Post	1678 1724	1580	1731, gone by 1736
West Mersea	Smith's Mill	Post		1833	Demolished 1919
West Thurrock		Post		1266	1266
West Thurrock	Beacon Hill Mill			1575	1620
West Thurrock	Purfleet mill			1561	1611
West Thurrock		Smock		1799	Demolished c. 1861
West Thurrock	Torrells Hall Mill	Post		1267	1653
West Tilbury		Post		1584	1584
West Tilbury		Smock	1777	1761	Demolished 1905 Windmill World
Wethersfield	South Mill	Post	1678 1825	1678	1825
Wethersfield	East Mill Brand's Mill	Smock	1777	1774	Demolished c. 1918
Wethersfield	North West Mill Livermore's Mill	Post		1806	1814
Wethersfield	Joyce's Mill	Post		c. 1807	Burnt down 10 April 1911
White Roding		Post		1289	c. 1349
White Roding		Post		1609	Blown down 1 January 1877
White Roding	White Roding Mill	Tower		1877	Windmill World
Wicken Bonhunt		Post		1314	1361
Wicken Bonhunt		Smock		1765	Demolished c. 1921
Wicken St Paul	Ruffle's Mill	Post	1724 1777	1725	Demolished 1914
Wicken Bohunt	Oak Farm Mill			1859	1878
Wickford		Post		1247	1300
Wickham St Paul		Post		1222	1222
Widdington				1423	1633
Widdington		Post	1724	1660	Demolished c. 1910
Willingale Doe	Tye Green Mill Munson's Mill	Smock	1777 1825	1757	Demolished 1912
Willingale Doe	Lower Green Mill Mynott's Mill	Smock		1828	1841, moved to new site by 1856
Willingale Doe	Lower Green Mill Mynott's Mill	Smock		1856	Demolished c. 1912
Wimbish		Post		1252	1252
Wimbish	Tye Green Mill		1777	1757	Demolished c. 1817
Wimbish	Tye Green Mill	Smock	1825	1819	Demolished 1912 Windmill World
Wimbish	Lower Green Mill Mynott's Mill	Smock		1828	Demolished c. 1912 Windmill World
Witham		Smock	1825	1819	Demolished 1847
Wivenhoe		Post	1825	1816	Burnt down 17 November 1882
Wivenhoe	TM 0430 2385
Wix	Approximately		1724	1569	1724
Wix	Southgate's Mill Kindred's Mill	Post		1808	1896
Woodham Ferrers	Bicknacre Mill	Post	1724	1684	Blown down November 1800
Woodham Ferrers	Bicknacre Mill	Post		1801	1898, gone by 1904
Woodham Mortimer	Old Mill	Smock	1777	1759	1791, gone by 1799
Woodham Mortimer	Great Mill	Smock	1777	1768	1895, gone by 1900
Woodham Walter				1856	1878
Writtle	Cooksmill Green Mill	Post		1274	1274
Writtle	Warren's Mill	Post	1678 1724	1678	Burnt down c. 1890
Writtle	Southgate's Mill	Post	1678	1516	Blown down 24 June 1897

Locations formerly within Essex

• For windmills in Barking, Cranham, Dagenham, East Ham, Havering, Leyton, North Ockendon, Rainham, Romford, Upminster, Walthamstow, West Ham and Woodford see List of windmills in London.
• For windmills in Ickleton see List of windmills in Cambridgeshire.
• For windmills in Kedington see List of windmills in Suffolk.

Maps

• 1676 Seller (map of Hertfordshire)
• 1678 John Ogilby & William Morgan
• 1696 John Oliver
• 1700 Robert Morden & John Pask
• 1724 John Warburton, Joseph Bland & Payler Smith
• 1746 John Rocque
• 1749 Emanuel Bowen
• 1761 Thomas Kitchin
• 1757 Sparrow
• 1761 Kitchin
• 1776 John Andrews & Andrew Dury
• 1777 John Chapman & Peter André
• 1781 Carington Bowles
• 1799 J Woodward
• 1804 William Faden
• 1805 Ordnance Survey
• 1818 Christopher and John Greenwood (map of Middlesex)
• 1824 Christopher and John Greenwood
• 1840 Ordnance Survey
• 1844 Ordnance Survey
• 1893 Ordnance Survey
• 1903 Ordnance Survey

Notes

Unless otherwise stated, the source for all entries is the five volume Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights.^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

All mills are listed against the parish in which they were when built, which may not always be the parish with which they are most often associated. This affects-

• Sach's Mill, Cressing – listed under Rivenhall
• Billericay – listed under Great Burstead
• Oxley Green Mill, Tolleshunt d'Arcy – listed under Tolleshunt
• Virley Mill – listed under Tolleshunt
• Messing Maypole Mill, Tiptree under Tolleshunt Knights

Notes and References

1. Book: Moore, Cyril. 1999. Hertfordshire Windmills and Windmillers. 48–49. Windsup Publishing. Sawbridgeworth. 0-9533861-0-4.
2. Farries states it was moved to Great Baddow by 1762 but this conflicts with available evidence showing Great Baddow mill had been built in 1755.
3. Web site: Assington Mill Farm . Assington mill . 1 June 2009.
4. Book: Major, J Kenneth. 1977. The Windmills of John Wallis Titt. The International Molinological Society.
5. Site in Linton, Cambridgeshire since 1965
6. Book: Bonwick, Luke . 1999 . Cromer Windmill, History & Guide . 8 . Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust . Hertford .
7. Little Chishill was transferred to Cambridgeshire in 1895.
8. Book: Farries, Kenneth. 1981. Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume One – An Historical Review. Charles Skilton. London & Edinburgh. 0-284-98641-0.
9. Book: Farries, Kenneth. 1982. Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume Two – A Technical Review . Charles Skilton. London & Edinburgh. 0-284-98637-2.
10. Book: Farries, Kenneth. 1984. Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume Three - A Review by Parishes, A-E. Charles Skilton. Edinburgh. 0-284-98642-9.
11. Book: Farries, Kenneth. 1985. Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume Four - A Review by Parishes, F-R. Charles Skilton. Edinburgh. 0-284-98647-X.
12. Book: Farries, Kenneth. 1988. Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Volume Five - A Review by Parishes, S-Z. Charles Skilton. Edinburgh. 0-284-98821-9.