This is a list of windmills in the English county of Shropshire.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph | |
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Alberbury | Rew Wood Mill | Post | Gone by 1774 | ||||
Alberbury | Rowton Mill Sunny Bank Mill | Tower | 1774 | Windmill World | |||
Albrighton | Albrighton Mill | Tower | 1768 | Windmill World | |||
Albrighton | 1827 | 1827 | 1827 | ||||
Asterley | Westbury Road | Tower | 1827 1833 | 1809 | Windmill World | ||
Barrow | Posenhall | 1808 | 1808[1] | 1808, gone by 1845[2] | |||
Bayston Hill | Lyth Hill Mill | Tower | c. 1835 | Windmill World | |||
Bishop's Castle | Approximately | 1808 | 1805 | 1808 | |||
Bourton | Henmoor Hill Mill | c. 1717 | c. 1717 | ||||
Broome | Broome station | Titt iron wind engine | 1895[3] | ||||
Broseley | Syners Hill Great Mill | 1778[4] | 1838[5] | ||||
Broseley | Syners Hill Lesser Mill | 1782[6] | Stump still standing 2010 [7] | ||||
Broseley | Ferney Bank Mill | 1776[8] | 1838 | ||||
Cardeston | Tower | Late 18th century | |||||
Chetwynd | Howle Mill | Tower | 1845 | Windmill World | |||
Ditton Priors | Hillside Mill | Tower | 1845 | 1883[9] Windmill World | |||
Ellesmere | 1808 | 1803 | 1908 | ||||
Hadnall | Waterloo Mill | Tower | 1787 | Windmill World | |||
Harley | Harley Court Mill | Tower | 1808 | 1808 | Demolished 1960 | ||
Harmer Hill | Shotton Farm Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||||
Ketley | Near ironworks | 1794[10] | 1856, gone by 1870 | ||||
Lilleshall | 1804[11] | 1880, gone by 1901 | |||||
Longford | combined wind and water mill | Tower | |||||
Loppington | 1808 | 1808 | 1908 | ||||
Lydbury North | Walcot Estate | Titt iron wind engine | 1895 | ||||
Lydbury North | Walcot Estate | Titt iron wind engine | 1896 | ||||
Madeley | Madeley Court Mill | Tower | 1827 1832 | 1702[12] | Windmill World | ||
Munslow | Bache Mill[13] | Early 19th century | 1880s | ||||
Much Wenlock | 1321[14] | 1321 | |||||
Much Wenlock | Much Wenlock Mill | Tower | 1752 1833 | 1714 | Windmill World | ||
Preston on the Weald Moors | west of village | 1676[15] | 1676 | ||||
Rodington | Tower | 1833 | c. 1830 | 1904, truncated by 1936 Windmill World | |||
Shifnal | Upton Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||||
Shrewsbury | 1267[16] | 1267 | |||||
Shrewsbury | Kingsland | 1796[17] | 1796 | ||||
Telford | Hadley Park Mill | Tower | 1808 1827 | c. 1787 | Windmill World | ||
Wellington | 1315 | 1315 | |||||
Wem | 1281[18] | ||||||
Wem | Cotonwood Mill | Tower | 1813 | Windmill World | |||
Westbury | Vennington Mill | Tower | 1808 | 1808 | Windmill World | ||
Weston-under-Redcastle | Hawkstone Mill | Tower | 1808 | Windmill World | |||
Willey | 1755[19] | 1755 | |||||
Whixall | Stanley Green Mill | 1827 1833 | 1827 | Demolished c. 1930 | |||
Wrockwardine | destroyed 1349 | ||||||
Wrockwardine | 1752 | 1752 | 1752 | ||||
Wrockwardine | Cluddley Mill | Tower | 1827 | Windmill World | |||
Wroxeter | Charlton Hill Mill | Post | 1752 1808 1827 1833 | 1752 | 1833 |
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.
Unless otherwise indicated, the source for all entries is:-Book: Seaby, Wilfred A, and Smith, Arthur C. 1984. Windmills in Shropshire Hereford and Worcester. Stevenage Museum. Stevenage. 0-9504239-8-X. or the linked Windmill World page.