List of windmills in Suffolk
A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Suffolk.
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For Minsmere see LeistonLocation | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
Market Weston | Post | 1807 | Demolished c. 1911 | |||
Marlesford | Post | 1824 | 1824 | c. 1896 | ||
Martlesham | Tower | 1820 | Demolished c. 1890 | |||
Mellis | Mellis Green Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished c. 1898 | |
Melton | Post | c. 1800 | 1831 | |||
Melton | Approximately | 1801 | ||||
Mendham | Post | 1802 | 1805 | |||
Mendlesham | Mill Terrace | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Gone by 1884 | |
Mendlesham | approximately | Smock | 1781 | 1781 | ||
Mendlesham | Ling's Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished c. 1918 | |
Mendlesham | Kersey's Mill | Post | Demolished 1927 | |||
Mendlesham | Kent's Mill | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished 1910 or 1913 | |
Mendlesham | Mendlesham Green Mill approximately | Post | 1824 | 1824 | 1824 | |
Metfield | Post | 1824 | 1824 | 1824 | ||
Metfield | Ball's Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished c. 1914 | |
Metfield | Ball's Mill Office Farm Mill | Tower | 1839 | Demolished 1916 | ||
Mettingham | Post | 1826 | 1826, gone by 1836 | |||
Middleton | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished 1913 | ||
Mildenhall | White Top Mill | Smock | 1783 | 1783 | 1927 | |
Mildenhall | White Top Mill | 1820 | 1820 | 1885 | ||
Mildenhall | Cross Bank Mill | Smock | 1824 | 1824 | 1905 | |
Mildenhall | 1783 | 1783 | Gone by 1885 | |||
Mildenhall | Approximately | 1783 | 1783 | 1783 | ||
Mildenhall | Approximately | 1783 | 1783 | Gone by 1885 | ||
Mildenhall | Approximately | 1783 | 1783 | 1783 | ||
Mildenhall | Middle Mill | Smock | 1820 | 1820 | 1905 | |
Mildenhall | Mill Drain Mill | 1820 | 1820 | Gone by 1885 | ||
Mildenhall | West Row Mill | 1836 | 1836 | Gone by 1885 | ||
Monewden | Post | 1837 | 1837 | Demolished c. 1928 | ||
Monks Eleigh | Post | 1783 | 1783 | 1783 | ||
Monks Eleigh | Post | 1837 | 1837 | 1837 | ||
Monls Eleigh | Post | 1799 | 1799 | 1799 | ||
Monk Soham | Broadway Mill | Composite | 1837 | 1837 | Moved within Monk Soham by 1883 | |
Monk Soham | Oak Mill | Composite | 1883 | Demolished November 1937 | ||
Monk Soham | Approximately | 1824 | 1824 | 1824 | ||
Mutford | Post | 1826 | 1826 | Demolished 1922 or 1923 |
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Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
Oakley | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Moved to Bedingfield 1828 | ||
Occold | 1826 | 1826 | 1826 | |||
Occold | Smock | Demolished 1921 | ||||
Offton | Post | 1866 | ||||
Offton | Approximately | Post | 1866 | |||
Old Newton | Post | 1783 | 1783 | 1783 | ||
Old Newton | Ward Green Mill | Smock | 1837 | 1837 | Demolished c. 1896 | |
Onehouse | Union Mill | Post | 1802 | 1882 | ||
Orford | 1165 | 1165 | ||||
Orford | Post | 1588 | 1588 | 1588 | ||
Orford | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Demolished 1913 | ||
Orford | Black Mill | Post | 1820 | 1820 | Burnt down c. 1886 | |
Orford | Post | Body moved to Saxtead Green | ||||
Otley | Post | 1837 | 1837 | Moved to Mendlesham | ||
Otley | Chestnuts' Mill | Smock | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished c. 1908 | |
Otley | Davey's Mill | Post | 1837 | 1837 | Demolished c. 1912 | |
Oulton | Skepper's Mill | Trestle | 1836 | 1835 | 1882, gone by 1903 | |
Oulton | Arnold's Mill | Tower | 1783 | 1783 | 1903 | |
Oulton Broad | Lady Mill | Tower | 1736 | 1736 | Demolished October 1932 | |
Oulton Broad | Knight's Mill | Tower | 1841 | 1841 | gone by 1903 | |
Oulton Broad | Tower | |||||
Ousden | Smock | 1826 | 1826 | Collapsed c. 1880 | ||
Ousden | Post | 1826 | 1826 | Blown down, gone by 1914 |
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For Saxtead Green see FramlinghamFor Sizewell see Leiston
Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
Sapiston | Approximately | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Moved 1853 | |
Saxmundham | 1767 | 1767 | ||||
Saxmundham | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished March 1907 | ||
Shadingfield | Post | 1764 | 1764 | Demolished c. 1905 | ||
Shadingfield | Smock | c. 1840 | Demolished c. 1938 | |||
Shimpling | Approximately | Post | 1783 | 1783 | 1783 | |
Shimpling | Mill Hill Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Moved to Alpheton c. 1875 | |
Shimpling | The Street | Smock | 1792 | Demolished 1935 | ||
Shotley | Post | 1730 | 1730 | |||
Shotley | Tower | 1826 | 1826 | Demolished early 1930s | ||
Shottisham | Post | 1838 | 1838 | 1838 | ||
Sibton | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Demolished c. 1922 | ||
Snape | Turning Mill | c. 1828 | ||||
Snape | Markin's Mill | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished 1922 | |
Snape | Post | 1668 | Demolished c. 1797 | |||
Snape | Hudson's Mill | 1797 | Demolished July 1933 | - | ||
Somerleyton | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished c. 1880 | ||
Somerleyton | Tower | 1837 | 1837 | Demolished early 20th century | ||
Somersham | Post | 1811 | 1881 | |||
Sotterley | Hulver Street Mill | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Gone by 1914 | |
Sotterley | Sotterley Brickworks | 1883 | 1883 | Gone by 1903 | ||
Southwold | White Mill Town Mill Corporation Mill | Post | 1723 | 1723 | ||
Southwold | Black Mill | Post | 1798 | Wrecked in gale November 1863 | ||
Southwold | Black Mill Great Mill | Post | 1864 | Demolished 1894 | ||
Southwold | Baggott's Mill | Post | 1841 | Burnt down 1876 | ||
Southwold | Salt works | Hollow Post | 1938 | |||
Southwold | Southwold Common | Titt iron wind engine | c. 1886 | 1938 | ||
Stansfield | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished 1840 | |||
Stansfield | Stansfield Mill | Tower | 1840 | |||
Stanstead | Post | 1799 | 1799 | Blown down c. 1915 | ||
Stanton | 1393 | 1394 | ||||
Stanton | Bury Lane Mill | Post | 1824 | 1824 | 1882 | |
Stanton | Upthorpe Mill | Post | 1751 | |||
Stanton | Smock | 1764 | 1764 | Demolished 1940s | ||
Stanton | Stanton Chair Mill George Hill Mill | Post | 1824 | 1915 | ||
Stanton | Lower Mill | Moved 1818 | ||||
St Cross, South Elmham | Sancroft Mill | 1826 | 1826 | Gone by 1883 | ||
St James, South Elmham | Post | 1864 | Demolished June 1923 | |||
St Michael, South Elmham | Post | 1799 | Demolished 1955 or 1956 | |||
Post | Moved to Fressingfield 1792 | |||||
Stoke Ash | Post | 1764 | 1764 | Burnt down 1883 | ||
Stoke by Clare | Approximately | 1783 | 1783 | 1783 | ||
Stoke by Clare | Tower | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished c. 1890 | ||
Stoke by Clare | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished 1892 | ||
Stoke by Nayland | 1884 | |||||
Stoke by Nayland | Approximately | 1783 | 1783 | 1783 | ||
Stoke by Nayland | Withermarsh Green Mill | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Moved to Polstead c. 1875 | |
Stonham Aspal | Mill Green Mill | Post | 1826 | 1826 | Demolished 1909 | |
Stowmarket | 1675 | 1675 | 1675 | |||
Stowmarket | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Gone by 1884 | ||
Stowmarket | Post | 1824 | 1824 | 1903 | ||
Stowmarket | Post | 1824 | 1824 | 1903 | ||
Stowmarket | Fison's Mill | Smock | 1824 | 1824 | Burnt down 1884 | |
Stowmarket | Eastbridge Windpump | Smock | 1979 | |||
Stowupland | Approximately | Post | ||||
Stowupland | Mill Street Mill approximately | |||||
Stowupland | Post | 1802 | Demolished 1866 | |||
Stowupland | Stowupland Green Mill | Tower | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished 1919 | |
Stradbroke | Battlesea Green Mill | Post | 1813 | 1813 | Burnt down 1898 | |
Stradbroke | Barley Green Mill | Post | c. 1704 | Demolished 1941 | ||
Stradbroke | Skinner's Mill | Post | 1688 | Demolished 1941 or 1942 | ||
Stratford St Andrew | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished 1905 or 1906 | ||
Sudbury | Approximately | Post | 1614 | 1714 | ||
Sudbury | Post | 1805 | 1805 | Moved to Assington 1868 | ||
Sudbury | Tower | 1824 | 1824 | 1824 | ||
Sudbury | Tower | 1824 | 1824 | 1824 | ||
Sudbury | Highfield Mill | Smock | 1855 | Demolished 1919 | ||
Sutton | Post | 1838 | 1838 | Blown down c. 1916 | ||
Swefling | Girling's Mill | Post | 1775 | Demolished September 1935 | ||
Swefling | Middle Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | 1900, demolished 1900s | |
Swefling | High Mill Rachael | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished 1911 or 1912 | |
Swilland | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished c. 1953 | ||
Syleham | Syleham Mill | Post | 1823' | Blown down 16 October 1987 |
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Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise | Photograph |
Walberswick | Post | 1838 | 1838 | Blown down 1924 | ||
Walberswick | Westwood Marshes | Tower | 1897 | 1897 | ||
Walberswick | 1903 | 1903 | 1903 | |||
Walberswick | Tinker's Marshes | 1882 | 1882 | Gone by 1925 | ||
Waldringfield | Post | c. 1806 | Demolished c. 1916 | |||
Walpole | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Blown down 1919 | ||
Walsham le Willows | Crowland Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | 1884 | |
Walsham le Willows | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished 1917 | ||
Walton | Upper Mill | Smock | 1806 | 1804 | ||
Walton | Ferry Lane Mill | Post | 1806 | 1806 | Demolished c. 1858 | |
Walton | Wadgate Mill | Post | 1804 | 1804 | Demolished c. 1890 | |
Wangford | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Demolished c. 1917 | ||
Wangford | Smock | 1883 | 1883 | Burnt down 7 August 1928 | ||
Wattisfield | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished 1914 | ||
Wenhaston | 1793 | 1793 | ||||
Wenhaston | Blackheath Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished c. 1896 | |
Wenhaston | Kitty Mill | Post | 1837 | 1837 | Demolished 1964 or 1967 | |
Westerfield | Smock | 1795 | Moved within Westerfield c. 1819 | |||
Westerfield | Smock | c. 1819 | Gone by 1880 | |||
Westhall | Mill Common Mill | Post | 1824 | 1781 | Demolished May 1957 | |
Westleton | Rouse's Mill | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Burnt down c. 1880 | |
Westleton | Post | 1842 | 1842 | Demolished July 1963 | ||
Westleton | Ralph's Mill | Smock | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished 1969 | |
Weston | Post | 1837 | 1836 | Burnt down 1896 | ||
West Stow | Sewage works | Titt iron wind engine | c. 1898 | |||
Wetherden | Post | 1824 | 1824 | 1914 | ||
Wetherden | Warren Mill | Post | 1764 | 1764 | Demolished c. 1907 | |
Wetheringsett | Old Mill Green Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished 1919 | |
Wetheringsett | Broad Green Mill | Post | 1826 | 1826 | Blown down 18 January 1881 | |
Wetheringsett | Broad Green Mill | Post | 1882 | Demolished 1957 | ||
Wetheringsett | Brockford Green Mill approximately | Post | 1824 | 1824 | 1824 | |
Weybread | Shotford Heath approximately | Post | 1736 | 1736 | 1794 | |
Weybread | Shotford Heath | Post | 1826 | 1826 | 1826 | |
Weybread | Post | 1826 | 1826 | Moved to Framsden c. 1882 | ||
Weybread | Post | 1826 | 1826 | Moved within Weybread | ||
Weybread | Dranes' Farm Mill | Post | 1884 | 1884 | Demolished c. 1926 | |
Whatfield | Post | post 1844 | 1884 | |||
Whepstead | Mickley Green Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Burnt down 1894 | |
Whitton | Tower | 1838 | 1838 | 1892 | ||
Wickhambrook | Bullock's Mill | Post | 1836 | 1836 | Demolished 1909 | |
Wickhambrook | Great Mill | Post | 1740 | Demolished 1966 | ||
Wickhambrook | Fuller's Mill | Post | c. 1850 | Demolished c. 1920 | ||
Wickhambrook | Baxter's Green Mill approximately | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Moved to Beyton c. 1830 | |
Wickham Market | Charsfield Road | 1824 | 1824 | Gone by 1881 | ||
Wickham Market | Charsfield Road | 1824 | 1824 | Gone by 1881 | ||
Wickham Market | Mill Lane | Smock | 1774 | Demolished c. 1885 | ||
Wickham Market | Mill Lane | Tower | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished 1868 | |
Wickham Skeith | Wickham Street | Post | 1826 | 1826 | Moved to Wickham Green | |
Wickham Skeith | Wickham Green approximately | Post | Demolished 1881 | |||
Wickham Skeith | Tower | c. 1870 | Demolished March 1925 | |||
Wingfield | Earsham Street | Post | 1837 | 1837 | Demolished c. 1910 | |
Wingfield | Earsham Street | Post | Moved to Syleham 1823 | |||
Wissett | Post | 1837 | 1837 | Demolished c. 1920 | ||
Withersfield | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished c. 1910 | ||
Witnesham | Wood Farm Mill | Post | 1826 | 1826 | Demolished c. 1888 | |
Witnesham | Post | c. 1815 | Burnt down c. 1908 | |||
Woodbridge | Mill Hills | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Moved to Ramsey, Essex 1842 | |
Woodbridge | Mill Hills | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Moved to Butley 1841 or Southwold 1842 | |
Woodbridge | Mill Hills | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Moved to Butley 1841 or Southwold 1842 | |
Woodbridge | Mill Hills | Post | 1819 | 1866 | ||
Woodbridge | Victoria Road Mill | Tower | c. 1825 | 1841 | ||
Woodbridge | Drybridge Hill Mill | Post | 1820 | 1820 | 1820 | |
Woodbridge | Theatre Street Mill | Post | ||||
Woodbridge | Buttrum's Mill | Tower | 1816 | |||
Woodbridge | Tricker's Mill | Tower | 1815 | |||
Woolpit | Approximately | Post | c. 1568 | c. 1568 | ||
Woolpit | Pyke's Mill | Post | 1644 | Demolished 1924 | ||
Woolpit | Elmer's Mill | Post | 1675 | 1675 | Collapsed September 1963 | |
Worlingham | Tower | 1836 | 1836 | 1849, gone by 1883 | ||
Worlingworth | Old Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished c. 1914 | |
Worlingworth | New Mill | Post | 1848 | Demolished 1952 | ||
Wortham | Magpie Green Mill | Post | 1881 | 1881 | Moved to Walsham le Willows c. 1890 | |
Wortham | Wortham Ling | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Demolished 1917 | |
Wortham | Smock | 1826 | c. 1700 | Wrecked in gale 18 January 1881 | ||
Wortham | Smock | c. 1881 | Demolished 1948 | |||
Wrentham | Mill Lane Mill approximately | Post | 1736 | 1736 | Moved within Wrentham by 1783 | |
Wrentham | Fletcher's Mill | Post | 1783 | 1783 | Blown down 1931 | |
Wrentham | Carter's Mill | Post | 1824 | 1824 | Demolished 1955 | |
Wrentham | Tower | 1837 | 1837 | Demolished 1964 | ||
Wyverstone | Post | 1837 | 1837 | 1837 | ||
Wyverstone | Black mill | Post | 1884 | 1884 | 1884 | |
Yaxley | Tower | 1824 | 1824 | Burnt down c. 1885 | ||
Yoxford | Post | 1764 | 1764 | 1764 | ||
Yoxford | Post | c. 1813 | 1910 | |||
Yoxford | Approximately | 1783 | 1783 | 1783 |
Mill bodies
A number of post mill bucks, and one smock mill body were moved and re-erected after they had ceased to be used as windmills.Location | Type | Notes |
Creeting St Mary | Post | The body of Creeting St Mary Windmill was moved to Alder Carr Farm c. 1860. It is the only surviving post mill body. |
Framlingham | Post | The body of a hollow post drainage mill was moved from Aldeburgh or Orford and set up in the mill yard of Saxted Green Mill, it was later moved across the road to the yard of a millwright and was still standing in 1938. |
Hundon | Post | The body of Mansfield's Mill was retained after the mill was demolished. |
Peasenhall | Smock | Moved to Peasenhall c. 1882. Smock tower and cap incorporated into a steam mill. Standing as of 2011. |
Theberton | Post | The body of Little Glemham mill was moved to Theberton and set up as a steam mill driving one pair of millstones. |
Walsham le Willows | Post | The body of Magpie Green Mill, Wortham was moved to Walsham le Willows and set up alongside the windmill as a steam mill. |
Westhall | Post | The top part of the body of Aldridge's Mill, Huntingfield was moved to Westhall Common in 1928. |
Worlingworth | Post | The body of Cross Street Mill, Hoxne was moved to Worlingworth and set up as a steam mill. Demolished c. 1910. |
Locations formerly within Suffolk
- For mills in Belton, Bradwell, Burgh Castle, Cobholm and Southtown see List of windmills in Norfolk.
- For mills in Fritton see List of drainage windmills in Norfolk.
Maps
- 1588
- 1675 Ogilby
- 1724 John Warburton, Joseph Bland & Payler Smith
- 1736 John Kirby
- 1777John Chapman & Peter André
- 1783 Joseph Hodgkinson
- 1825 C & J Greenwood
- 1826 Andrew Bryant
- 1837 Ordnance Survey
- 1838 Ordnance Survey
- 1883 Ordnance Survey