Brixton Windmill Brixton · London · England

Brixton Windmill, also known as Ashby's Mill, was built in 1816 by John Muggeridge and Sons on high ground at Brixton Hill. It was leased to the Ashby family in 1817 and became known as Ashby's Mill throughout its working life. The four-storey brick tower mill produced stoneground wholemeal flour.

It worked by wind until 1862, when the milling business moved to a watermill at Mitcham on the River Wandle. The sails were removed in 1862, and the tower was used as a store from 1864. In 1902 the watermill lease expired and the Brixton mill returned to production using a steam engine, later replaced by a gas engine.

Engine-powered milling continued until 1934, supplying wholemeal flour to West End hotels and restaurants. After the Second World War, demolition was proposed, but the mill was retained. London County Council restored it in 1964, fitting new sails and installing machinery from a derelict mill at Burgh le Marsh.

The mill opened to the public at Easter 1968, passed to Lambeth Council in 1971, and underwent further restoration in 1978 and 1983. A major project restored it to working order in 2011. The mill survives as a Grade II* listed working heritage site.