List of windmills in Wales facts for kids
This is a list of windmills in Wales.
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Locations
Anglesey
There were 49 windmills in Anglesey, the most of any county in Wales.
See List of windmills in Anglesey.
Carmarthenshire
There was one windmill in Carmarthenshire.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Machynys | Machynys Brick & Tile Co Ltd | 1900 | 1900 |
Ceredigion
There were four windmills in Ceredigion.
Conwy
There was one windmill in Conwy County Borough.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Llandudno | Melin Hen Dŵr SH 804 812 |
Tower | Early 18th century |
Denbighshire
There were three windmills in Denbighshire.
Flintshire
There were five windmills in Flintshire.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trefynnon | Groes Onnen | Tower | ||||
Whitford | Melin Garreg SJ 1336 7826 |
Tower |
Glamorgan
There were twelve windmills in Glamorgan, not including the Titt engine.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caswell Bay | ||||||
Llantrisant | Y Billy Wynt ST 042 835 |
Tower | ||||
Llantwit Major | SS 9614 6856 | Tower | ||||
Llantwit Major | Melin Frampton SS 972 693 |
Tower | 1820 | |||
Monknash | Melin Monknash SS 919 706 |
Tower | ||||
Radyr | Titt iron wind engine | 1894 | ||||
St Donats | Tower | Standing in 1815 | ||||
Sully | Hayes Farm Mill ST 1410 6789 |
Tower | ||||
Swansea | Kilvey Hill Mill | Tower | Demolished by 1957 | |||
Wick | SS 9258 7199 | Tower | ||||
Wick | SS 924 721 | Tower | 1878 | 1878 |
Gwynedd
There were four windmills in Gwynedd
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Llanengan | SH 297 275 | tower | ||||
Mynytho | Melin Foel Fawr SH 305 320 |
Tower |
Monmouthshire
There were two windmills in Monmouthshire.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Llancayo | Melin Llancayo SO 365 030 |
Tower | 1813 | |||
Rogiet | Melin Rogiet ST 455 883 |
Tower | 16th century | Grade II listed in 1995 |
Pembrokeshire
There were nine windmills in Pembrokeshire.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angle | SM 8668 0190 | tower | Early 19th century | Truncated | ||
Dale | Dale Windmill SM 809 062 |
tower | ||||
Tyddewi | Twr y Felin SM 758 251 |
tower | 1806 |
Powys
There were two windmills in Powys.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bettisfield | Melin Bettisfield SJ 472 349 |
Tower | Converted to dwelling |
- See also
- Centre for Alternative Technology
Maps
- 1878 Ordnance Survey
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