List of windmills in Norfolk
A list of windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Norfolk. This list covers those windmills that had a function other than drainage. Drainage mills are covered by the List of drainage windmills in Norfolk. Mills used for drainage and another function appear on both lists.
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Norwich
Windmills within a 5 mile radius of Norwich Castle.Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
Bixley | Sunk post | |||||
Bixley | Bixley Mill | Smock | 1797 | 1797 | Demolished 1838 | |
Bixley | Bixley Mill | Tower | 1838 | Demolished October 1865 | ||
Catton | 1471 | 1570 | ||||
Catton | Catton Mill | Post | 1770 | 1788 | ||
Catton | Catton Mill | Tower | 1775 | 1886 | ||
Cringleford | 1797 | 1795 | 1795 | |||
Drayton | 1331 | 1331 | ||||
Drayton | Post | 1851 | 1887 | |||
Drayton | Smock | 1842 | 1887 | |||
Eaton | 1741 1797 | 1741 | 1797 | |||
Heigham | Heigham Tannery | Smock | 1852 | Moved 1863, converted to a drainage mill | ||
Heigham | Crook's Place Mill New City Mill | Tower | 1826 | Demolished c. 1890 | ||
Heigham | Mill Hill Mill | Post | 1741 1797 | 1741 | 1824, probably demolished 1826 | |
Heigham | Stone Hills Mill | Post | 1741 1826 | 1731 | 1857 | |
Hellesdon | Marsh Mill | Smock | c. 1828 | Blown down June 1842 | ||
Keswick | Keswick Mill | 1797 | 1766 | 1834, gone by 1847 | ||
Lakenham | Bracondale Mill | Tower | 1829 | Demolished 1890s | ||
Lakenham | Buck's Mill Lakenham Mill | Post | 1797 1826 1830 1834 | 1771 | 1864 | |
Lakenham | Butter Hills | Post | 1723 | 14th century | 1723 | |
Lakenham | Peafield Mill | Tower | 1834 1838 | 1824 | ||
New Catton | Bird's Mill | Tower | 1837 | 1884 | ||
New Catton | Cann's Mill | Tower | 1841 | 1884 | ||
New Catton | Eglington's Mill | Tower | 1820s | Demolished September 1872 | ||
Norwich | Carrow Hill, Black Tower | Smock | 1778 | 1810, gone by 1833 | ||
Norwich | Chapelfield Mill | 1343 | 1343 | |||
Norwich | Magdalen Road Mill | Post | 1797 1830 1834 | 1732 | 1875 | |
Norwich | Mile Cross Mill Batson's Mill Rose's Mill | Post | 1824 1834 1838 | 1822 | 1900 | |
Norwich | St Augustine's Gate Mill | Sunk post | 1675 1696 1723 1834 | 1675 | 1834 | |
Norwich | St James' Hill Mill | Sunk post | 1558 1581 1650 | 1235 | 1650, gone by 1696 | |
Norwich | St Stephen's Gate Mill | Post | 1723 | 1723 | Demolished c. 1848 | |
Pockthorpe | Barre Gate Mill | 1328 | 1328 | |||
Pockthorpe | Hassett's Mill | Sunk post | 1558 1611 1696 1723 | 1558 | 1787 | |
Pockthorpe | Post | 1787 | Burnt down 16 April 1795 | |||
Pockthorpe | 1718 | Demolished c. 1769 | ||||
Pockthorpe | Jeckell's Mill | Smock | 1797 | 1769 | 1803, gone by 1813 | |
Pockthorpe | Pockthorpe Mill Bagshaw's Mill Bayfield's Mill St Paul's Mill | Tower | 1830 1834 | 1813 | Demolished 1896 | |
Sprowston | Austin's Mill | Tower | 1850 | 1906 | ||
Sprowston | Sprowston Saw Mill | Tower | 1850 | 1864 | ||
Sprowston | Sprowston Mill Mousehold Mill | Post | 1797 | 1780 | Burnt down 24 March 1933 | |
Sprowston | Sprowston Road Mill | Post | 1834 1838 | 1825 | Blown down 4 February 1842 | |
Sprowston | Bond's Mill | Tower | 1827 | 1876 | ||
Thorpe | Gallant's Mill | Tower | 1834 | 1886 | ||
Thorpe | Mousehold | Smock | 1794 1824 | 1794 | 1847, gone by 1854 | |
Thorpe | Jenning's Mill | Tower | 1854 | 1885 | ||
Thorpe | Mousehold | 1750 | 1750 | 1750 | ||
Thorpe | Black Mill, Mousehold | Post | 1778 | Demolished 1841 | ||
Thorpe | Black Mill, Mousehold | Post | 1841 | 1865, gone by 1884 | ||
Thorpe | Plumstead Road Mill Little Fanny | Tower | 1834 1838 | 1825 | 1906 | |
Trowse | Trowse Mill | post | 1797 | 1769 | 1826 | |
Upper Hellesdon | St Clement's Mill | Post | 1741 | 1741 | Demolished or substantially rebuilt 1813 | |
Upper Hellesdon | St Clement's Mill | Post | 1813 | Demolished August 1875 | ||
Upper Hellesdon | Press Lane Mill Witard's Mill | Tower | 1875 | Demolished 1920 |
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- 1675 Ogilvy
- 1736 John Kirby
- 1749 Emanuel Bowen
- 1765 Corbridge
- 1775 Bowles
- 1783 Hodskinson
- 1797 Faden
- 1824 Ordnance Survey
- 1826 Bryant
- 1826*Bryant
- 1834 Greenwood
- 1837 Ordnance Survey
- 1838 Ordnance Survey