HAAbaseWindmills

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Browse historic windmill sites by country and region

Explore HAABase Windmills by country and region, including tower mills, post mills, smock mills, windpumps, mill sites and other surviving wind-powered structures.

The register currently records 1,341 sites across 3 countries and 17 regions. Coverage is expanded and refined as new evidence, field records and photographs are added.

Browse the regional index

Each regional entry shows the number of recorded windmill sites and the main mill-use groups represented. Use the List and Map links to open the records for that country and region.

Coverage map

The map shows where regional coverage has been added to the HAABase Windmills register. Bubble size indicates the relative number of recorded sites in each region.

Select a bubble to open that region in map view, or use the regional cards below to browse the records as a list or map.

England (1,212)

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East Midlands (187)
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Corn / flour milling 185 · Drainage / pumping 2
East of England (413)
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Corn / flour milling 334 · Drainage / pumping 74 · Industrial / other 4 · Unknown 1
London (12)
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Corn / flour milling 9 · Drainage / pumping 2 · Water supply 1
North West (44)
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Corn / flour milling 37 · Water supply 3 · Industrial / other 2 · Unknown 2
South East (286)
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Corn / flour milling 273 · Drainage / pumping 3 · Water supply 3 · Display / decorative 2 · Saw / timber 2 · Unknown 2 · Industrial / other 1
South West (50)
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Corn / flour milling 46 · Industrial / other 3 · Water supply 1
West Midlands (67)
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Corn / flour milling 65 · Industrial / other 1 · Unknown 1
Yorkshire and the Humber (123)
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Corn / flour milling 111 · Industrial / other 7 · Drainage / pumping 3 · Water supply 2

Scotland (81)

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Central Scotland (15)
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Corn / flour milling 9 · Unknown 3 · Drainage / pumping 2 · Industrial / other 1
Highlands and Islands (19)
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Industrial / other 8 · Corn / flour milling 7 · Drainage / pumping 3 · Unknown 1
North East Scotland (15)
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Corn / flour milling 8 · Industrial / other 4 · Drainage / pumping 3
South East Scotland (19)
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Corn / flour milling 12 · Drainage / pumping 3 · Industrial / other 2 · Unknown 1 · Water supply 1
South West Scotland (13)
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Corn / flour milling 12 · Unknown 1

Wales (48)

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North Wales (36)
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Corn / flour milling 34 · Drainage / pumping 1 · Unknown 1