Charlton Windmill Charlton · Hertfordshire · England

Charlton Windmill stood near Charlton, a small hamlet immediately south of Hitchin. It formed part of a local milling landscape that also included the Charlton water mill and mill stream. The windmill was a brick-built tower corn mill and appears in nineteenth-century estate material connected with Charlton Mill.

The 1856 sale particulars for the Charlton Mill estate described a comfortable dwelling house, a water corn and grist mill, farm buildings, cottage, meadow land, and, near the main mill property, a substantial brick-built tower windmill with about an acre of arable land. The same notice placed the estate about one mile from Hitchin and connected it with an established grist and general business.

The windmill's later history is defined by damage and survival. In February 1895 a storm destroyed the windmill, an event also remembered in local walking and parish material. The truncated tower remained as a visible feature near Charlton and close to the public house that carries the Windmill name. Although the mill no longer survives as a complete working structure, its remaining fabric preserves the site of one of the wind-powered elements of Charlton's nineteenth-century milling economy.