List of windmills in East Sussex
# List of windmills in East Sussex

A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of East Sussex.

## Locations

### A - B

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alfriston | Alfriston Mill TQ 518 027 | Tower | | 1834 | Windmill World |
| Arlington | Windover Mill | Post | | c. 1800 | Burnt down c. 1881 |
| Baldslow | Hayward's Mill | Post | | | Demolished 1855 |
| Baldslow | The Harrow Mill | Smock | | 1855 | |
| Barcombe | | Post | | c. 1818 | Burnt down c. 1907 |
| Battle | King's Head Mill | Post | | | Demolished 1805 |
| Battle | King's Head Mill Caldbec Hill Mill TQ 748 166 | Smock | | 1805 | Windmill World |
| Battle | Telham Hill Mill | Post | | 1747 | Demolished 1962 |
| Battle | Watch Oak Mill Netherfield Mill | | 1813 | | |
| Beckley | Old Mill | | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 |
| Beckley | New Mill | | | | |
| Beddingham | Old Mill | | 1724 1813 | 1724 | 1813 |
| Berwick | | Post | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 |
| Bexhill | Mount Idle Mill | | | | |
| Bexhill | Black Mill | | | | |
| Bexhill | Down Mill Hoad's Mill TQ 733 087 | Post | | 1784 | Collapsed during storm 30 July 1965, demolished 31 July 1965. Information and photographs |
| Bishopstone | Tide Mills | Smock | | 1860s | 1883 |
| Bishopstone | | Post | | | |
| Brede | | Post | 1813 | 1794 | 1905 |
| Brightling | Beacon Mill | | | | |
| Brighton | Brighthelmstone Mill (north) | Post | | 1545 | Blown down 1703 |
| Brighton | Brighthelmstone Mill (south) | Post | | 1545 | Blown down 1703 |
| Brighton | Church Hill Mill | Post | 1724 | 1724 | Blown down 10 May 1726 |
| Brighton | Coffee Mill, East Street | Post | | 1736 | 1736 |
| Brighton | West Mill, Belle Vue Fields Regency Square Mill | Post | | 1744 | Moved to Preston 28 March 1797 |
| Brighton | West Street Mill | | | 1744 | 1750, Possibly moved to Black Rock |
| Brighton | East Brighton, Lewes Crescent | | | 1793 | 1795, possibly moved (East End Mill) |
| Brighton | East End Mill | Post | | 1800 | 1842, moved to Sudeley Place by 1847 |
| Brighton | Black Rock Mill Roedean Mill | | | c. 1750 | c. 1790 |
| Brighton | Sudeley Place Mill East Mill | Post | | 1790s | Moved to Windmill St (Taylor's Mill) mid1840s |
| Brighton | Vine's Mill Clifton Gardens Mill | Post | | 1810 | Moved to Windmill Street c. 1837 |
| Brighton | Toronto Terrace Mill Albion Hill Mill Brighton Park Mill Butcher's Mill | Post | | 1822 | Moved to Falmer (Race Hill) December 1861 |
| Brighton | Windmill Street Clifton Mill | Post | | c. 1837 | Demolished c. 1862 |
| Brighton | Windmill Street Taylor's Mill East End Mill | | | 1847 | Collapsed 24 March 1862 whilst being prepared for move to new site at Woodingdean |
| Brighton | Preston Mill Streeter's Mill Black Mill Trusler's Mill | Post | | 1797 | Demolished c. 1890 |
| Brighton | Lashmar's Old Mill Hove Mill | Post | | 1780 | Demolished 1821 |
| Brighton | Lashmar's New Mill | Post | | 1821 | Moved to Clayton, 1852 |
| Brighton | Port Hall Mill | Post | | 1826 | Demolished c. 1882 |
| Brighton | Bear Mill | Post | | 1813 | Standing 1903 |
| Brighton | Site later occupied by Hanover Mill | | | 1813 | 1813 |
| Brighton | Hanover Mill | Post | | 1838 | Demolished c. 1887 |
| Brighton | Rose Hill Mill Roundhill Mill Cutress's Mill | Tower | | c. 1834 | Demolition commenced 13 March 1913, completed by 25 April 1913 |
| Brighton | Black Mill Hodson's Mill West Hill Mill | Smock | | 1808 | Demolished 25 June 1866 |
| Burwash | Witherenden Mill | | | | |
| Burwash | Rockhill Mill | Post | | 1839 | Collapsed 1940 |

### C

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Catsfield | Catsfield Mill | Post | | | |
| Chailey | TQ 386 214 | Post | | 1596 | Six mills in succession, on same site as Heritage mill |
| Chailey | Heritage Mill TQ 386 214 | Smock | | | Windmill World |
| Chailey | South Common Mill | Smock TQ 387 175 | 1823 | c. 1808 | Standing 1922 Windmill World |
| Chailey | Yokehurst Mill | | 1813 | 1790 | Moved to South Common c. 1808 |
| Chiddingly | Willard's Mill, The Dicker Old Mill | | | | |
| Chiddingly | Black Mill, The Dicker | | | | |
| Chiddingly | Golden Cross Mill, The Dicker Wicken's Mill TQ 537 123 | Post | 1823 | 1823 | Demolished 1919. roundhouse house converted Windmill World |
| Chiddingly | Lower Dicker Mill Ovenden's Mill New Mill | Post | | 1813 | Collapsed 28 December 1929 |
| Cross in Hand | Waldron Down Mill TQ 652 216 | Post | | 1598 | Struck by lightning and severely damaged, 1790 |
| Cross in Hand | Old Mill Little Mill TQ 557 218 | Post | | 1791 | Demolished 1903 Windmill World |
| Cross in Hand | New Mill TQ 558 218 | Post | | 1855 | Windmill World |
| Crowborough | Beacon Mill | Post | | 1782 | Burnt down c. 1940 |
| Crowborough | Pratt's Mill TQ 518 311 | Tower | | 1862 | |
| Crowhurst | | | | | |

### D - E

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dallington | TQ 660 193 | Smock | | c. 1852 | Demolished 1913 Windmill World |
| Ditchling | Elphick's Farm Mill | Hollow post | | c. 1884 | 1904 |
| East Blatchington | Black Mill | | | | |
| East Blatchington | Pumping mill | Tower | | 1882 | Demolished c. 1919 |
| Eastbourne | Parsonage Mill Black Mill Watt's Lane Mill Rectory Manor Mill | Post | | | |
| Eastbourne | Paradise Hill Mill | | | | |
| Eastbourne | White Mill | Post | | | |
| Eastbourne | Rodmill Farm Mill | | | | |
| Eastbourne | Radmill Village Mill | Post | | | |
| Eastbourne | Ocklynge Mill | Tower | | | Standing in 1934 |
| Eastbourne | Old Mill | Tower | | 1800 | Replaced by Hurst's Mill, 1808 |
| Eastbourne | Hurst's Mill St John's Mill | Tower | | 1808 | Demolished 1950 |
| Eastbourne | Bullock Down | Wind wheel | | | |
| Eastbourne | Pashley Down | Vertical axle mill | | 1752 | 1767, Demolished by 1785 |
| Eastbourne | Pashley Down | Post | 1724 | 1724 | 1785, later burnt down |
| Eastbourne | Seafront | Vertical axle mill | | 1757 | 1780s |
| Eastbourne | Ocklynge Hill | Vertical axle mill | | c. 1767 | Burnt down 1811 |
| Eastbourne | Black Mill | Post | | | |
| East Grinstead | North End Mill | | | 1564 | Burnt down 1757 |
| East Grinstead | Common Mill | | | 1767 | Standing 1900 |
| East Grinstead | Ashurst Wood Mill Cutten's Hill Mill | Smock | | | Demolished 1882 |
| East Grinstead | Pook Hill Mill | | 1823 | 1823 | 1823, gone by 1841 |
| East Hoathly | | Post | | | Burnt down 1824 |
| East Hoathly | | Post | | 1824 | Burnt down December 1891 |
| Ewhurst | Brasses' Mill | | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 |
| Ewhurst | Beacon Mill | | | | |
| Ewhurst | Staplecross Mill | Smock | | 1815 | Demolished 1951 |

### F

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fairlight | Old Mill | Smock | 1813 | 1813 | Burnt down 1872 |
| Fairlight | Batchelor's Mill | Post | | | |
| Falmer | Old Mill | Smock | 1724 | 1617 | 1724, later burnt down |
| Falmer | Falmer Mill | Post | | 1801 | Moved within Falmer, 1817 |
| Falmer | Mill Street | Post | | 1817 | 1866 |
| Falmer | Race Hill Mill | Post | | 1861 | Blown down 16 May 1913 |
| Firle | Firle Mill | | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 |
| Forest Row | Old Mill | | | | |
| Framfield | Mount Ephraim Mill | Post | | 1841 | Moved to Cross in Hand, 1855 |
| Framfield | Blackboys Mill | Post | | 1868 | Demolished 1944 |
| Frant | Benhall Mill | Post | | 1818 | 1880s, gone by 1900 |
| Frant | | | | | |
| Friston | Friston Mill | Post | | | Blown down January 1926. |

### G

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glynde | | Post | | 1807 | Moved to Blackboys 1868 |
| Glynde | | Hollow Post | | Mid-19th century | Moved to High Salvington 2007 |
| Glynde | Glyndebourne Mill Ringmer Mill | Post | 1724 | 1700 | Collapsed 1925 |
| Guestling | Old Mill Pickham Farm Mill | post | 1813 | | |
| Guestling | Guestling mill Jenner's Mill Down Mill Fairlight Mill | Smock | | 1859 | Demolished c. 1918 |

### H

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hailsham | Upper Mill | Post | | | |
| Hailsham | South Common Mill | Post | | 1691 | Standing in 1711, gone by 1735. |
| Hailsham | Lower Mill Hamlin's Mill | Smock | | 1834 | Burnt down November 1923 |
| Hailsham | Harebeating Mill Upper Mill TQ 595 105 | Post | 1823 | 1823 | Collapsed 1934. Modern house built on roundhouse. Windmill World |
| Hamsey | | Post | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 |
| Hamsey | Offham Mill Racehill Mill Steeres Mill | Smock | | | |
| Hankham | | | 1724 | 1724 | 1813 |
| Hastings | Summerfield's Mill | | | | |
| Hastings | French's Mill Croft Road Mill | Smock | | 1799 | Moved to Silverhill, St Leonards c. 1838 |
| Hastings | Priory Road Mill #1 | | | | |
| Hastings | Priory Road Mill #2 | | | | |
| Hastings | Priory Road Mill #3 | | | | |
| Hastings | Priory Road Mill #4 | | | | |
| Hastings | Priory Road Mill #5 | | | | |
| Hastings | Town Mill | | | | |
| Hastings | Six sailed mill | Post | | | |
| Heathfield | Sandy Cross Mill | Post | | 1842 | Demolished 1916 |
| Heathfield | Broad Oak Mill | Post | | 1842 | Burnt down 11 March 1890 |
| Heathfield | Mutton Hall Mill | Post | | 1805 | Demolished 1891 |
| Heathfield | Cade Street Mill Chapman's Town Mill | Smock | | | Gone by 1936 |
| Heathfield | Punnetts Town Mill | Post | | | Burnt down 1856 |
| Heathfield | Punnetts Town Mill Blackdown Mill Cherry Clack Mill TQ 627 209 | Smock | | 1856 | Windmill World |
| Heathfield | Punnetts Town Saw Mill | Smock | | 1862 | Demolished 1934 |
| Heathfield | Alexandra Road | Wind wheel | | | c. 1910 |
| Heathfield | Punnetts Town | Wind wheel | | c. 1908 | Dismantled 1916 |
| Hellingly | Old Mill North Street Mill | Post | | 1781 | Blown down 1908 |
| Herstmonceux | Windmill Hill Mill | Post | | | |
| Herstmonceux | Windmill Hill Mill TQ 648 122 | Post | | c. 1814 | Windmill World |
| Herstmonceux | Bodle Street Green Mill | Post | | 1780s | |
| Herstmonceux | Cowbeech Mill Erry's Mill TQ 621 147 | Smock | 1823 | 1820 | Demolished c. 1919 Windmill World |
| Hooe | Hooe Common Mill | Post | 1813 | | Demolished by 1934 |
| Hooe | Hooe Common Mill | Smock | | | |
| Horham | | Smock | | | Moved to Punnetts Town 1866 |

### I - L

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Icklesham | Telegraph Hill Mill | Smock | | 1834 | Demolished c. 1922 |
| Icklesham | Village Mill | Post | | | |
| Icklesham | Hogg Hill Mill TQ 888 160 | Post | | 1790 | Windmill World |
| Iden | | Post | | | |
| Iford | | Sunk Post | | 1155 | 1155 |
| Kingston | Kingston Mill Ashcombe mill TQ 392 089 | Post | | 1832 | Blown down, March 1916 |
| Kingston | Kingston Mill Ashcombe mill TQ 392 089 | Post | | 2009 | Facsimile of original mill, for residential and electricity generation purposes. |
| Kingston | Old Duck Mill TQ 402 092 | Smock | | 1802 | Collapsed 1891 Windmill World |
| Laughton | Laughton Mill | | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 |
| Lewes | Town Mill | Smock | | 1802 | Moved to new site, c. 1818 (Shelley's Mill). Windmill World |
| Lewes | Shelly's Mill | Smock | | c. 1818 | Demolished 1922 |
| Lewes | Southern Mill | Post | | c. 1785 | Demolished c. 1912 |
| Lewes | Spital Mill | Post | | 1770 | Burnt down May 1885 |
| Lewes | Malling Mill | Post | | 1625 | Burnt down 8 September 1908 |
| Lewes | King Harry's Mill | Post | | 1264 | 1264 |
| Lewes | Smart's Mill | | | | |
| Lewes | Southover Mill | | | | Blown down 1888 |
| Little Horsted | Old Mill | | | | |

### M - N

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mark Cross | Walter's Mill TQ 585 315 | Tower | | 1845 | Windmill World |
| Mayfield | Luggers Crouch Mill | | | 1795 | 1825 |
| Mayfield | Gravil Hill Mill | | | 1711 | 1720 |
| Mayfield | Argos Hill Mill TQ 571 283 | Post | | 1835 | Windmill World |
| Newenden | pumping mill | Trestle | | | |
| Newhaven | Bolen's Mill | | | | Burnt down 1844 |
| Newhaven | | Smock | | 1844 | Moved to North Chailey |
| Newhaven | | Post | | | |
| Newick | Old Mill | | | | |
| Ninfield | Ashburnham Mill | Post | | 1809 | Standing 1936, demolished by September 1937 |
| Ninfield | Lunsford's Cross Mill Thorne Mill | Smock | | c. 1870 | Demolished 1907 |
| Northiam | Old mill | Post | 1795 | 1795 | Burnt down 1800 |
| Northiam | High Park Mill Millcorner Mill | Post | | 1800 | Demolished 1949 |
| Nutley | Nutley Mill TQ 451 291 | Post | | c. 1817 | Windmill World |

### O - P

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ore | White Mill Cheale's Mill | Smock | 1813 1823 | 1813 | Burnt down May 1900 |
| Ore | Black Mill Down Mill | Smock | | 1855 | Demolished c. 1918 |
| Patcham | | Post | 1724 | 1620 | 1791 |
| Patcham | Ballard's Mill | Smock | | c. 1780 | Demolished c. 1900 |
| Patcham | Waterhall Mill TQ 292 086 | Tower | | 1885 | Windmill World |
| Peasemarsh | | Smock | | | Standing 1936 |
| Pett | Pett Mill | Post | | 1781 | Moved to Icklesham, 1790 |
| Piddinghoe | Peddinghoe Mill | | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 |
| Playden | Black Mill | | | | Standing c. 1915 |
| Playden | Old Mill | Post | | | Moved to Appledore, Kent by 1819 |
| Playden | Playden Mill | | | | |
| Playden | TQ 9233 2123 | Smock | | | |
| Playden | TQ 9217 2141 | Post | | | Standing 1936 |
| Polegate | Ovenden's Mill Mockett's Mill TQ 582 041 | Tower | | 1817 | Windmill World |
| Portslade | East Hill Mill | Post | | 1837 | 1837 |
| Portslade | Copperas Gap Mill | Post | | 1820 | Demolished 1882 |
| Pevensey | Blackness Mill | | | 1778 | 1779 |

### R - S

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ringmer | Broyle Mill | Post | | | Burnt down 1905 |
| Ripe | Old Mill | | 1724 1813 | 1724 | 1813 |
| Rodmell | | | | 1199 | 1199 |
| Rodmell | Old Mill | Post | 1813 | c. 1801 | Demolished 12 January 1912 |
| Rottingdean | Dudeney's Hill Mill | Post | 1783 1813 | 1773 | 1818, possibly moved to Whitehawk Hill, Brighton |
| Rottingdean | Beacon Mill New Mill TQ 366 025 | Smock | | 1802 | Windmill World |
| Rottingdean | | Smock | | | |
| Rye | Wilkinson's Mill | | | | |
| Rye | | Smock | | | Moved to Punnetts Town 1862 |
| Rye | | Post | 1596 | 1596 | Gone by 1758 |
| Rye | Old Mill | Post | | 1758 | Replaced by smock mill 1824 |
| Rye | New mill Gibbet Mill Tillingham Mill Barry's Mill TQ 917 203 | Smock | | 1824 | Burnt down 13 June 1930 Windmill World |
| Salehurst | Silverhill Mill | | | | |
| Seaford | Sutton Mill | Post | | | |
| Sidley | Sidley Mill | | | 1723 | Burnt down 1797 |
| Sidley | Sidley Mill Pankhurst's Mill | Smock | | 1798 | Moved to Leigh, Kent, 1928 |
| St Leonards | Tivoli Old Mill | Post | 1813 | | |
| St Leonards | Tivoli New Mill | | | | |
| St Leonards | Silverhill Mill | Smock | | c. 1838 | Burnt down 1867 |
| St Leonards | Draper's Mill Silverhill Mill | Smock | | 1868 | Demolished 1966 |
| Stone Cross | Stone Cross Mill Blackness Mill White Mill TQ 620 043 | Tower | | 1876 | Windmill World |
| Stone Cross | Black Mill | Post | | | |

### U - W

| Location | Name of mill and grid reference | Type | Maps | First mention or built | Last mention or demise |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Uckfield | Old Mill | | | | |
| Udimore | Udimore Mill | Post | | | Demolished 1922 |
| Wadhurst | Cousley Wood Mill | | | | Standing 1885 |
| Wadhurst | Riseden Mill TQ 622 303 | Post | 1823 | 1821 | Collapsed 1910 Windmill World |
| Wadhurst | Butcher's Wood Mill White's Mill | | | 1866 | 1894 |
| Wadhurst | Bestbeech Hill Mill Standen's Mill | | 1795 | 1795 | Standing 1801, possibly moved to Riseden by 1821 |
| Warbleton | Summer Hill Mill | Post | | c. 1825 | Demolished August 1936 |
| Warbleton | Chapman's Mill | Smock | | 1838 | Struck by lightning 16 July 1880 |
| Wartling | Wartling Mill | | | | |
| Wartling | Boreham Street Mill | Post | 1813 | | |
| West Blatchington | West Blatchington Mill TQ 279 068 | Smock | 1823 | 1823 | Windmill World |
| Westfield | Church Mill | 1724 | 1724 | 1724 | |
| Westfield | White Mill | | | | |
| Westfield | North Mill | | | | One of the Westfield mills burnt down 5 November 1908 |
| Westham | Westham Mill | | | | |
| Westham | | Hollow Post | | 1860 | Moved to Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, 1975 |
| Whatlington | Whatlington Mill Old Mill | | | 1849 | 1849 |
| Willingdon | Old Mill | | 1813 | | |
| Winchelsea | | | | 1297 | 1297 |
| Winchelsea | Iham Mill | Post | 1813 | 1760 | 1813, moved to new site by 1823 |
| Winchelsea | St Leonard's Mill TQ 902 176 | Post | | c. 1823 | Blown down 16 October 1987 |

## Locations formerly within East Sussex

For windmills in Lamberhurst see List of windmills in Kent.

## Sources

Unless stated otherwise, the source for all entries is Brunnarius, Martin (1979). The Windmills of Sussex. Chichester: Philimore. ISBN 0-85033-345-8. or Hemming, Peter (1936). Windmills in Sussex. London: C W Daniel. Online version

## Maps

* 1596 Robert Morden
* 1724 Richard Budgen
* 1795 Gardner & Gream
* 1813 Ordnance Survey
* 1823 C & G Greenwood
