Wilton Windmill Wilton · Wiltshire · England

Wilton Windmill was built in 1821 as a brick tower corn mill. Its construction followed the making of the Kennet and Avon Canal, which affected local water-powered milling on the River Bedwyn. The mill was set on a chalk ridge between Wilton and Great Bedwyn and was built as a five-floor tower mill. Its working arrangement includes four sails, two common and two patent, a cast-iron windshaft, fantail winding with six fantail blades, and two pairs of millstones.

The mill remained in use for about a century and continued working into the 1920s. It then fell out of use and became derelict. Restoration began in the early 1970s after the mill was bought by Wiltshire County Council and leased to the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust. By 1976 the windmill was again fully operational, and the Wilton Windmill Society was formed to manage and run it. The mill is listed at Grade II* and remains a working historic windmill, producing wholemeal stone-ground flour.