This is a list of windmills in the English county of West Yorkshire.
Location | Name of mill and grid reference |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberford | Barkeston Mill | 1216[1] | 1216[1] | |||
Aberford | Hicklam Mill SE 434 359 |
Tower | 18th century[2] | Windmill World | ||
Aberford | Lotherton Mill | 1720[1] | 1720[1] | |||
Barwick in Elmet | Barwick Mill[3] | 1850s[3] | Demolished 1950s[3] | |||
Birstall | Brownhill Mill SE 233 262 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Bramham | Bramham Mill SE 432 433 |
Tower | 18th century[4] | Windmill World | ||
Darrington | Darrington Mill SE 474 199 |
Tower | Late 18th or early 19th century[5] | Windmill World | ||
Howden | Howden Brickworks Pump SE 250 280 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Kippax | Kippax Mill SE 426 299 |
Tower | 18th century[6] | Windmill World | ||
Knottingley | Knottingley Mill SE 500 230 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Leeds | Colton Mill SE 376 330 |
Tower | Mid-18th century[7] | Windmill World | ||
Leeds | Potternewton Mill SE 296 365 |
Tower | Late 18th century[8] | Windmill World | ||
Leeds | Whin Moor Mill Seacroft Mill SWillington Mill[9] SE 359 364 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Leeds | Flint Mill[10][11] | 1758[11] | 1774[11] | |||
Morley | Morley Mill[12] | |||||
Pontefract | Dandy Mill Boreas Union Mill SE 468 230 |
Tower | 1819[13] | Windmill World | ||
South Kirkby | Kirkby Mill SE 4438 1035 |
Tower | 1854 | |||
Upton | Upton Mill SE 474 139 |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Wakefield | Flint Mill[10][11] | Smock[11] | 1755[11] | |||
Wakefield | Oil Mill[11] | Smock[11] | 1755[11] | |||
West Ardsley | Boyle Hall | Titt iron wind engine | 1899[14] | Demolished by 1971[15] |
Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.
Unless otherwise indicated, the source for all entries is:-Gregory, Roy (1985). East Yorkshire Windmills. Cheddar: Charles Skilton Ltd. ISBN 0-284-98721-2. or the linked Windmill World page.