List of windmills in Somerset explained

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

Locations

A - B

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Ashcott			1736 1760	1736	1760, gone by 1784
Bawdrip	Approximately		1660 1675	1660	1675
Bedminster			1769	1769	1769
Bedminster			1769	1769	1769
Berrow				1330s	1330s
Berrow		Tower	1782	1773	Demolished 1890s
Bickenhall	Approximately
Bleadon	Bleadon Level		Early 17th century	Early 17th century
Brent Knoll	Approximately		1675	1330s	1675
Brent Knoll	Shackleton's Mill	Tower		1861	Demolished early 1900s
Bridgwater	Stowey Farm^[1]	Titt iron wind engine		1893
Bridgwater Without		Sunk post		15th century	15th century
Brockley		Tower	1769 1782	1529	1782, gone by 1829
Burnham on Sea		Post	1675	1675	1786
Burnham on Sea	Allen's Mill Sandway Mill	Tower		1840s	Demolished June 1869
Burnham on Sea	Burnham Brewery	Titt iron wind engine		1894
Burnham Without	Blew Mill Burnham Mill Edithmead Mill	Post	1675 1760	1675	1885
Burnham Without	Highbridge Mill	Sunk post	1675	1675	1675
Burnham Without	Approximately	Post		1803	1867
Burnham Without	Watchfield Mill	tower	1817	1817	Windmill World
Butcombe		Sunk post		13th century	13th century
Butleigh	Approximately		1675 1817	1675	1817

C - E

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Catcott	Catgut Mill approximately		1675	1675	1675
Chapel Allerton				1317	1736
Chapel Allerton	Ashton Mill	Tower		1774	Windmill World
Charlton Horethorne	Approximately				Demolished c. 1784
Charlton Mackrell	(two mills)		1467	1467
Charlton Mackrell	Baskett's Mill	Tower		1592	1757, gone by 1810
Chedzoy		1817 1822	Sunk post	1685	Blown down 7 December 1827
Churchill, Somerset	Approximately			1652	1652
Compton Dundon	Approximately		1675	c. 1660	1675
Cossington	Approximately		1675	1675	1675
Croscombe		Titt iron wind engine		1899
Curry Rivel	Willtown Mill	Tower	1822	1822	Demolished c. 1930
Curry Rivel	Week Mill Wick Mill	Sunk post	1760	1760	1775, gone by 1820
Ditcheat	Blindmill approximately
Durston		Sunk post
Durston		Sunk post			Gone by 1817
East Brent		Post	1675 1760 1822	1675	c. 1880
East Brent	Edingworth	Post

G - H

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Glastonbury	Approximately			1244	1309
Glastonbury	Windmill Hill Mill approximately			Late 15th or early 16th century	Late 15th or early 16th century
Glastonbury	Wearyall Hill Mill approximately		1660 1675	1640	c. 1775
Glastonbury	Common Moor Mill			1722	1722
Glastonbury	The Elms	Titt iron wind engine		1892
Greinton	Approximately		1660 1675	1660	1675, gone by 1742
Hardington Mandeville	Approximately
High Ham	Stembridge Mill	Tower		1822	Windmill World
High Ham	Sedgemoor Hill Mill approximately		1660 1760	1660	1779
High Ham	Turn Hill Mill		1660	1660	1660
Hinton Charterhouse		Titt iron wind engine		1895
Huish Episcopi	Bowden's Mill approximately,br>	Tower		1874	Demolished c. 1885
Huish Episcopi	Pibsbury Mill		Tower	1823	Collapsed April 1915
Huish Episcopi	Wearne Mill approximately		1660	1585	1664
Hutton				1309	1309
Hutton				1482	1482
Hutton	Hutton Mill		1809	1809	1864
Hutton	Oldmixon Mill approximately		1736 1760	1736	1760

K - M

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Kenn	Kenn Mill			1821	Truncated c. 1900
Kingsdon	Approximately			1628	1694
Langport	Big Mill approximately			1344	Blown down 16 January 1362
Locking	Vale Mill Locking Moor Mill	tower		c. 1813
Long Ashton				1312	1312
Long Sutton	Upton Mill approximately			1349	1538
Low Ham	Approximately		1660	1660	Derelict in 1779
Lympsham	Batch Farm Mill	Tower		1758	1758
Mark				1700	Blown down 26 November 1703
Mark	Mark Causeway				Blown down 26 November 1703
Middlezoy	Approximately		1660	1660	1660
Middlezoy	Approximately	Tower	1822	1822	1885
Montacute	Approximately			1560	1560
Moorlinch	Knoll Hill Mill	Post	1660 1675 1760	1660	1760
Moorlinch		Tower		Early 19th century	1889

N - P

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
North Cheriton	Approximately			1766	1766
North Curry	Approximately				c. 1840	c. 1840
Othery				1308^[2]	1346, gone by 1403
Othery				1515	Demolished c. 1811
Othery	Approximately		1660	1598	1701
Paulton
Pawlett
Pawlett	Hams Mill	Tower			Demolished 1880s
Pitney				1605	1691
Portbury	Okey Mill approximately		1769 1782	1769	1782
Portishead	Portishead Mill	Tower		1832	Windmill World
Puriton	Approximately	Tower	1610 1675 1760	1610	Demolished early 20th century
Puriton	Approximately		1675	1675	1675
Puriton	Approximately		1817	1817	c. 1840

S - U

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
St Cuthbert Out	Approximately
Seavington St Michael				c. 1212	c. 1212
Shapwick				1330s	1330s
Shapwick		Post	1660 1760 1782	1660	Blown down 29 November 1836
Shapwick		Tower		c. 1836	1860
Somerton				1276	1330
Somerton	Mileburgh approximately			1334	1484
Somerton	South Field			1575	1619
Somerton	Applin's Mill approximately		1736^* 1760	1715	1802
Somerton	Crane's Mill approximately			1616	1779, gone by 1802
Somerton	William Champion's Mill			1651	1651
Somerton	South Hill Mill Cullen's Mill approximately		1675	1675	1749
Stawell, Somerset	Approximately		1660 1675	1660	1675
Stawell	Cock Hill Mill Stoll Mill approximately		1675	1675	1675
Stawell	Sutton Mill			1685	1685
Stockland Bristol	(two mills)			1317	1317
Stoke St Gregory
Stoke St Gregory		Tower		1704	1787
Street				c. 1255	c. 1255
Street	Millfield Mill approximately		1660 1675	1660	1675
Street	Ivythorn Mill approximately		1822	1822	1822
Uphill	Uphill Mill	Tower	1782	1782	Truncated 1934 Windmill World

W

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Walton				1342	1342
Walton	Walton Mill	Post	1660 1675	1660	Collapsed c. 1725
Walton	Walton Mill	Tower		1741	Windmill World
Weare	Weare Mill		1760	1760	Windmill World
Wedmore	Maltfield Farm Mill	Tower	1760 1782	1760	Demolished 1886
Wedmore		Post		1678	Moved to Mark, 1700
Wedmore	Burnt Mill approximately
Wedmore	Heath House Mill			1737	Burnt down c. 1740
Wedmore	Heath House Mill Westfield Mill	tower		1775	Demolished 1962
Wedmore	Stoughton Mill	Tower	1817	1817	1875
West Huntspill	Approximately		1675	1675	1675
West Monkton	(two mills)			1364	Mid-16th century
West Monkton	Burlinch Mill	Tower	1817
West Monkton	Woodball Mill
West Pennard	Approximately			1362	1362
Westonzoyland				1330s	1330s
Westonzoyland	Penzoy Mill		1822	1822	1822
Westonzoyland	Westonfield Mill approximately			1833	1833
Williton	Great Mill approximately
Winford	Broadfield Mill	Tower		1880s	Windmill World
Woolavington	(two mills)			1222	1222
Woolavington			1736 1760 1783 1822	1630	Demolished 1967
Worle	Worle Mill	Tower	1760 1782	1760	Windmill World
Worlebury	Approximately		1736 1760	1736	1760

Maps

• 1660 Newcourt
• 1675 John Ogilby
• 1736 John Kirby
• 1736^* Strachey
• 1760 Bowen
• 1769 Donn
• 1782 Day & Masters
• 1783 Joseph Hodgkinson
• 1822 C & J Greenwood
• 1825 C & J Greenwood
• 1817 Ordnance Survey
• 1826 Andrew Bryant
• 1838 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 Book: Coulthard, Alfred J, and Watts, Martin. 1978. Windmills of Somerset and the men who worked them. The Research Publishing Co. London. 0-7050-0060-5.

Notes and References

1. Book: Major, J Kenneth. Ken Major . 1977. The Windmills of John Wallis Titt. The International Molinological Society.
2. Web site: OTHERY . British History Online . 5 June 2009.