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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
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 Mill-geograph.org-2157006.jpg
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 Old Mill Site, Houghton Conquest - geograph.org.uk - 382164.jpg
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
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
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
Potton windmill.jpg
Riseley Post Standing 1936
Riseley Smock
Sharnbrook Sharnbrook Windmill
SP 998 593
Tower Windmill World Sharnbrook windmill.jpg
Shefford Shefford Windmill
TL 149 395
Tower Windmill World Shefford windmill.jpg
Stanbridge Stanbridge Windmill
SP 962 245
Tower 1800 Windmill World Stanbridge windmill new cap.jpg
Stevington Stevington Windmill
SP 992 528
Post c. 1770 Windmill World Stevington windmill.jpg
Sundon Post Moved to Toddington 1847
Thurleigh Thurleigh Windmill
TL 047 582
Tower 1890 Windmill World Thurleigh windmill.jpg
Toddington Post Demolished c. 1845
Toddington Post 1847 Blown down 1880s
Totternhoe Post
Totternhoe Doolittle Windmill
SP 990 202
Tower c. 1820 Windmill World Doolittle Mill, Totternhoe.jpg
Upper Dean Upper Dean Windmill
TL 041 682
Tower 1856 Windmill World Upper Dean windmill.jpg
Whipsnade Post 1860 Demolished 1877
Woburn Woburn Windmill
SP 941 329
Smock Demolished 1805
Windmill World
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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