List of windmills in Surrey explained

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

Locations

A, B

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Alfold	Alfold Mill Laker's Green Mill Tickner's Heath Mill Robbin's Mill Dunsfold Mill	Smock	1871	1841	Probably built after 1813. Mill Field marked on 1841 Tithe map, first mention of a miller in 1845 Six Home Counties Directory. Working until c. 1870. Demolished c. 1913.
Ash		Post		1332	The Abbot of Chertsey ordered a new windmill to be built at Ash in 1332.
Banstead	Hundred Acres Mill	Post	1816	1505	Field names in the C16th indicate the possibility of an earlier mill. Demolished c. 1877.
Belmont	The Folly Mill	Smock	1823	1823	Markeds as a folly on 1823 map. Windmill may have been erected post-1840. Demolished c. 1890 .
Birtley	Birtley Mill			1834	Built to pump water into the Wey and Arun Canal. Demolished in 1853 .
Blackheath	Tangley Way, Blackheath, near Guildford	Smock		After 1923	Designed by E Lancaster Burns for generating electricity. Out of use by the 1970s.^[1]
Bletchingley	Cox Hill Mill				Moved to Ifield, Sussex c. 1870
Buckland	Buckland Windmill		Smock		A saw mill, built in 1860s or 1870s. Restored 1995-2003.

C

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Capel	Clark's Green Mill	Post	1733 1749 1762 1777 1789	1649	Marked on a map of the manor of Dorking dated 1649. Demolished in 1774.
Capel	Shiremark Mill	Smock		1774	Incorporated timbers from Clark's Green Mill. Working until c.1919. Burnt down 1970.
Carshalton			1816	1816	Marked on the 1" to a mile Ordnance Survey map, 1816 .
Caterham					Demolished before 1736.
Caterham	Caterham Common Mill	Post		1696 1762 1793	Standing in 1795. Probably gone by 1838, possibly demolished c. 1851.
Charlwood	Stanhill Mill				Blown down 13 January 1703.
Charlwood	Little Park Farm Mill				Blown down 13 January 1703.
Charlwood	Norwood Hill Mill		1729 1750	1729	1750
Charlwood	Charlwood Common Mill	Post	1762	1762	1762
Charlwood	Charlwood Common Mill	Smock		1804	Burnt down February 1901. The base survived and was house converted in 1934.
Charlwood	Lowfield Heath Mill	Post Mill		1989	Windmill World
Chelsham	Chelsham Mill	Post	1762 1770 1823	1762	Burnt down c. 1840.
Chiddingfold			1762 1789	1760	Stood 400yd north east of Chiddingfold Church.
Chiddingfold	Hungry Corner Mill	Post		1668	Demolished c.1813.
Chiddingfold	Hungry Corner Mill	Smock	1823 1871	1813	Cap blown off c. 1874, demolished c. 1876. Base survives, used as a store.
Chipstead	Mugswell Mill		1790	1772	1790
Chipstead	Mugswell Mill	Post		1816	Working until c. 1895. Demolished c. 1912. Roundhouse survives.<
Cobham	Fairmile Mill		1816 1823	c. 1805	Built c. 1805. Demolished in the 1850s.
Cranleigh	Windmill Field				Gone by 1843.
Cranleigh	Cranleigh Common Mill	Tower	1753	1703	Replaced by smock mill c. 1800.
Cranleigh	Cranleigh Common Mill Killick's Mill	Smock		c. 1800	Demolished in February 1917.
Cranleigh	Cranley Mill			1833	A pumping windmill, supplied water for the Wey and Arun Canal. Demolished in 1853.

D, E

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Dorking	Popper Mill Pupper Mill		1729 1749	1729	1749
Epsom Wells	early mill			15th century	15th century
Epsom Wells		Post	1823 1871	1796	Burnt down c. 1880
Ewell		Tower	1816 1853	1801	Demolished c. 1900
Ewhurst	Hurt Wood Mill	Post	1733 1749	1648	Standing in 1847, blown down c. 1854
Ewhurst	Hurt Wood Mill	Tower	1871	1855	Windmill World

F, G, H

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Fetcham	Cheshire Mill	Tower	1789	1777	1804
Frimley	early mill			1537	1537
Frimley	Frimley Green Mill	Tower	1816	1784	Windmill World
Godstone	Tilburstow Hill Mill	Post	1762 1777 1790 1871	1760	Collapsed 1805
Godstone	Godstone Green Mill	Post	1816 1871	c. 1810	Demolished late 1880s
Haslemere	Grayswood Hill Mill Oliver's Mill	Smock	1871	1785	Demolished August 1886
Holmwood	Holmwood Mill		1762
Holmwood	Holmwood Mill	Post	1816	1775	Demolished c. 1880
Hookwood	Hookwood Mill	Post	1823 1866	c. 1820	Demolished 1896
Horley	Horley mill	Post	1762 1777 1789 1816 1871	1762	Demolished c. 1900
Horne	Horne Mill		1823	1823	Standing in 1845, gone by 1851
Horsell	Saw mill	Post mill		1890	c. 1910

K, L

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Kingston upon Thames	Kingston Mill		1700 1733	1700	1733
Leigh	Shellwood Common Mill		1729 1750 1762 1789	1729	1789, later burnt down, gone by 1795
Leigh	Shellwood Common Mill	Post	1816 1823	1795	Standing in 1915, gone by 1925
Limpsfield Chart		Post		1816	Demolished February 1925
Long Ditton			1762	1762	1762

M, N

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Merstham		Post	1789 1816 1823 1871	1786	Demolished 7 October 1896
Mitcham	Mitcham Common Mill	Post		1806	Demolished 1906
Mitcham		Horizontal
Nutfield		Post mill		1296	1296
Nutfield	Botterys Mill	Post		1680	Demolished December 1929

O, R

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Ockley	Emler Mill Almer's Mill	Smock	1823	1803	Collapsed 23 November 1944 Windmill World
Ockley		Smock			Replica for residential use. Windmill World
Outwood	Outwood Mill	Post		1665	Windmill World
Outwood	Outwood High Mill	Smock		1796	Collapsed 25 November 1960
Reigate	Oatmill			1800	1800
Reigate	Blackborough Mill		1700 1729 1733	1700	1733, replaced by later post mill on same site
Reigate	Blackborough Mill, Blackberry Mill, Ganders Hatch Mill	Post		1736	Demolished 1938
Reigate	Cockshot Hill Mill			1628	Collapsed by 1639
Reigate	Cockshot Hill Mill	Post	1729	1729	Standing in 1826, gone by 1845
Reigate	Cockshot Hill Mill ^[2]	Post		1748	Demolished c. 1893
Reigate	Reigate Heath Mill	Post	1753 1762	1753	Windmill World
Reigate	Trumpet's Hill Mill	Smock	1789 1816 1823 1871	Built 1760s	Demolished 4 October 1950
Reigate	Wray Common Mill	Tower		1824	Windmill World

S

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Shepperton	Upper Halliford			14th century	14th century
Shepperton	Halliford			1382	1399
Shepperton	Walton Bridge Approximately			1597	1597
South Beddington		Smock		1835	Burnt down 1852
Sunbury on Thames				1311^[3]	1311
Sunbury on Thames				1591	1603
Sunbury on Thames				1683	Burnt down c. 1705
Sunbury on Thames				1712	1722
Sunbury on Thames		Smock		1819	Demolished 1900s

T, W

Location	Name of mill and grid reference	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Tadworth		Post		1295	1295
Tadworth		Post		1600	1775
Tadworth	New Mill	Post		1780	Windmill World
Tadworth		Post		1795	Demolished 1890
Walton-on-Thames			18th century or earlier
Walton-on-Thames			1765	1765	1820
Warlingham	Succombs Hill	Post		1198	1325
Warlingham	Ashby's Mill	Smock		1865	Burnt down 24 April 1865
Warlingham	Farleigh Mill
West Horsley	Windmill Hill Mill	Tower	1729 1753 1762 1777 1790	1729	Demolished 1866
Weybridge	Conduit Hill	Tower		1847	1847
Windlesham		Post

Locations formerly in Surrey

• For windmills in Addington, Barnes, Battersea, Bermondsey, Brixton, Camberwell, Camerwell, Clapham, Coulsdon, Croydon, Dulwich, Kew, Lambeth, Newington, Norwood, Richmond, Rotherhithe, Shirley, Southwark, Streatham, Surbiton, Wandsworth and Wimbledon see List of windmills in Greater London.
• For windmills in Lowfield Heath see List of windmills in West Sussex.

Notes

Unless otherwise indicated, the reference for all entries is:-

Book: Farries, K G, and Mason, M T . 1966. The Windmills of Surrey and Inner London. Charles Skilton Ltd. London.

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.

Maps

The maps quoted by date are:-

• 1594 – John Norden
• 1604 – Charles Whitewell
• 1610 - John Speed
• 1635 – Moses Glover
• 1658 - William Faithorne
• 1719 - Dr Harris
• 1729 – John Sennex
• 1733 – John Seller
• 1746 – John Rocque
• 1750 - Bowen
• 1753 – Emanuel Bowen
• 1762 – John Rocque
• 1777 – Andrews and Dury
• 1789 – Lindley and Crosley
• 1800 – Laurie and Whittle
• 1816- Ordnance Survey
• 1820 – Ordnance Survey
• 1823 - Bryant
• 1833 – Bryant and/or Greenwood
• 1850 – C Knight
• 1863 – Ordnance Survey
• 1871 - Ordnance Survey

References

Sources

• Book: Blythman, Guy. 1996. Watermills & Windmills of Middlesex. Baron Birch. 0-86023-538-6 .
• Book: Brunnarius, Martin. 1979. The Windmills of Sussex. Philimore. Chichester. 0-85033-345-8.
• Book: Farries . K G . Mason . M T . amp. 1966. The Windmills of Surrey and Inner London. Charles Skilton. London .

Notes and References

1. Stevens . Tony . 2007 . A unique windmill: Stories that grow . Surrey Industrial History Group Newsletter . 156 . 7 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160411065157/http://www.sihg.org.uk/news/07mar-SIHGnews156.pdf . 11 April 2016 . dead .
2. There were two mills on Cockshot Hill
3. Book: Blythman, Guy. 1996. Watermills & Windmills of Middlesex. Baron Birch. 0-86023-538-6.