Edlesborough Windmill Edlesborough · Buckinghamshire · England

Edlesborough Windmill stands on the eastern side of Edlesborough, near the Ouzel and close to the former watermill. Windmill World records it as Edlesborough, a tower mill alongside a watermill, converted to a house, at NGR SP982192. Mills Archive identifies it as a wind-powered corn mill in the historic county of Buckinghamshire.

Historic England's archive photograph record identifies the site as Edlesborough Windmill and records a mid twentieth-century photograph of the tower mill with the adjacent watermill in the background. A Tring Local History Museum account describes Edlesborough tower mill as also known as Simmons mill after the family who owned it over many generations. It places the mill about a quarter of a mile north-west of Edlesborough Hill, on the eastern side of the village, astride the Bucks and Beds border.

The same account states that a private drive leads to the mill and that it is not visible from the highway. The owner cited there believed the mill was built about 1790. The Victoria County History account quoted by Tring Local History Museum noted that Edlesborough Mill stood on the banks of streams eventually running to the Ouzel, and that on the other side of the stream in Buckinghamshire stood an old windmill whose sails had been blown down seventeen years earlier, giving an approximate date around 1895 for the loss of sails.

English Windmills, published in 1932, recorded that the mill had no sails and was derelict. Mills Archive similarly records that the tower mill had become derelict and had lost its sails by 1932, and that by the 1970s it was in bad condition. The present owner recorded in the local history account restored the body of the mill, and the former windmill was later used as a holiday flat.

The site survives as a converted tower mill within the broader Edlesborough mill landscape.