List of windmills in Bedfordshire facts for kids
A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Bedfordshire.
Locations
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Apsley Guise | Post | Demolished c. 1900 | ||||
Barton-in-the-Clay | Barton Mill TL 0806 2949 |
Post | 1831 | 1851 | ||
Bedford | Mill Street | 1842 | Burnt down February 1844 | |||
Biggleswade | Franklin's Tower The Steam Mill TL 189 440 |
Tower | 1860 | Demolished 1966 | ||
Biscot | Smock | |||||
Bolnhurst | Post | |||||
Colmworth | Post | |||||
Cranfield | Cranfield Windmill SP 960 429 |
tower | Demolished 1966 | |||
Dunstable | TL 014 218 | Tower | Late 18th or early 19th century | Windmill World | ||
Dunstable | TL 013 221 | |||||
Dunstable | TL 001 208 | |||||
Flitwick | Standing 1880s | |||||
Flitwick | Smock | c. 1850 | Burnt down 9 November 1903 | |||
Great Barford | Smock | 1835 | Demolished 1907 | |||
Henlow | Smock | 1819 | Demolished 1935 | |||
Houghton Conquest | Post | Demolished 1830s | ||||
Houghton Conquest | Houghton Conquest Mill TL 047 423 |
Tower | 1830s | Windmill World | ||
Houghton Regis | Smock | Replaced by tower mill | ||||
Houghton Regis | Tower | 18th century | ||||
Hulcote | Hulcote Windmill SP 949 382 |
Tower | 19th century | Demolished c. 1880, machinery to Spaldwick Mill, Huntingdonshire Windmill World |
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Husbourne Crawley | Pug Mill | Vertical axis | 1820 | Demolished c. 1840 | ||
Keysoe | Post | c. 1800 | Blown down 1948 | |||
Leighton Buzzard | 1212 | 1212 | ||||
Leighton Buzzard | Flemmon's Mill | Post | Moved to Whipsnade 1860 | |||
Leighton Buzzard | Beaudesert Mill | tower | Early 19th century | Demolished 1890s | ||
Lower Dean | Post | 1620 | Collapsed 20 December 1959 | |||
Lower Dean | Post | 1765 | 1762 | Rebuilt 1834 | ||
Lower Dean | TL 041 698 | Post | 1834 | Collapsed 1959 Windmill World |
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Luton | Biscot Windmill | Post | Burnt down 1841 | |||
Luton | Biscot Windmill | Smock | 1842 | Demolished 1938 | ||
Markyate | TL 056 186 | Post | 1222 | 1222 | ||
Markyate | Caddington Mill TL 056 186 |
Post | c. 1810 | Blown down c. 1815 | ||
Potton | Post | 1840s | 1853 | |||
Potton | TL 213 498 | Tower | Demolished 1955 Windmill World |
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Riseley | Post | Standing 1936 | ||||
Riseley | Smock | |||||
Sharnbrook | Sharnbrook Windmill SP 998 593 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Shefford | Shefford Windmill TL 149 395 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Stanbridge | Stanbridge Windmill SP 962 245 |
Tower | 1800 | Windmill World | ||
Stevington | Stevington Windmill SP 992 528 |
Post | c. 1770 | Windmill World | ||
Sundon | Post | Moved to Toddington 1847 | ||||
Thurleigh | Thurleigh Windmill TL 047 582 |
Tower | 1890 | Windmill World | ||
Toddington | Post | Demolished c. 1845 | ||||
Toddington | Post | 1847 | Blown down 1880s | |||
Totternhoe | Post | |||||
Totternhoe | Doolittle Windmill SP 990 202 |
Tower | c. 1820 | Windmill World | ||
Upper Dean | Upper Dean Windmill TL 041 682 |
Tower | 1856 | Windmill World | ||
Whipsnade | Post | 1860 | Demolished 1877 | |||
Woburn | Woburn Windmill SP 941 329 |
Smock | Demolished 1805 Windmill World |
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Yelden | Post | Burnt down October 1877 |
Locations formerly within Bedfordshire
For windmills in Eaton Socon see List of windmills in Cambridgeshire.
Maps
- 1765 Thomas Jeffrey
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