List of windmills in Australia
Appearance
A list of traditional windmills in Australia.
Locations
[edit]New South Wales
[edit]Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Appin | Larkin's Mill | Post | 1846[1] | Windmill World | |
Cattai | Arndell's Mill | Tower | c.1809[2] | Windmill World | |
Darlinghurst, Sydney | Barker's Mill Hope Mill |
Tower | Windmill World | ||
Darlinghurst, Sydney | Clarkson's Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||
Darlinghurst, Sydney | Girard's Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||
Darlinghurst, Sydney | Hyndes' Mill Craigend Mill Hill's Mill Jenkins' Mill |
Tower | Windmill World | ||
Gilead | Mount Gilead Mill Rose's Mill |
Tower | 1836[3] | Windmill World | |
Millers Point, Sydney | Underwood's Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||
Millers Point, Sydney | Post | ||||
Nimmitabel | Geldmacher's Mill | Tower | 1872 | Windmill World | |
Paddington, Sydney | Gordon's Mill | Post | Windmill World | ||
Parramatta | Howell's Mill | Smock | Combined windmill and tide mill Windmill World |
||
Port Macquarie | Smock | Windmill World | |||
Singleton | Rosemount | Post | Windmill World | ||
Somersby | Government Windmill, Old Sydney Town |
Tower | 1981 | Windmill World | |
Sydney | Boston's Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||
Sydney | Government Mill (First) Fort Phillip |
Tower | |||
Sydney | Government Mill (Second) Military Mill |
Tower | |||
Sydney | Kable's Mill Lucas' Mill |
Post | 1805 | Windmill World | |
Sydney | Palmer's Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||
Urana | Coonong Horizontal Windmill | Horizontal | 1885[4] | Dexter Turbine windpump Windmill World |
|
Waverley, Sydney | Hough's Mill | Post | Windmill World |
Norfolk Island
[edit]Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Kingston | Kingston Mill | Post | 1842-43[5] | Windmill World |
Queensland
[edit]Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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Brisbane | The Old Windmill | Tower | 1828 | Windmill World |
South Australia
[edit]Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide | City Mill | Smock | |||
Adelaide | West Terrace Mill | Tower | |||
Hay Valley | Dunn's Mill | Smock | 1842[6] | Windmill World | |
Mount Barker (Hahndorf) | Nixon's Mill | Tower | 1842 | Windmill World | |
Port Lincoln | Old Mill | Tower | 1846[7] | Windmill World | |
Victor Harbor | Old Mill | Tower | 1851 | Windmill World |
Tasmania
[edit]Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Battery Point | Luckman's Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||
Launceston | Penny Royal Windmill | Tower | 1978 | Windmill World | |
Maria Island | Darlington Mill | Post | Windmill World | ||
Oatlands | Callington Mill | Tower | 1837[8] | Restored 2010 | |
Richmond | Trafalgar Mill | Tower | Windmill World | ||
Rokeby | Stanfield's Mill | Post | Windmill World | ||
Sorell | Downward's Mill | Post | Windmill World |
Victoria
[edit]Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baxter | Westerfield | Smock | 1925 | For generating electricity Windmill World |
|
Kyneton | Greenhill Windmill | Tower | 1856 | National Trust Register | |
Warrnambool | Lyndoch | Smock | Open framed smock mill[9] Windmill World |
Western Australia
[edit]Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amelup | The Lily | Tower | 1997 | Inspired by Molen de Lelie, Puttershoek Windmill World |
|
South Perth | Old Mill Shenton's Mill |
Tower | 1835[10] | ||
South Yunderup | Cooper's Mill | Tower | 1847[11] | Windmill World | |
Wonnerup | Chapman's Mill | Tower | 1850[12] | Windmill World |
Notes
[edit]Names in bold denote surviving windmills. Known building dates are in bold text. Non-bold text denotes first known date. Unless otherwise stated, the reference for all entries is the linked Windmill World webpage.
References
[edit]- ^ "Windmill Hill Group, including Ruins". Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Cattai Estate". Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Mount Gilead". Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "The Dexter - Turbine Windmill". The Windmill Journal of Australia and New Zealand. 19 (1).
- ^ "Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (KAVHA)". Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Flour Mill, Hay Valley". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Port Lincoln's Old Mill". South Australian Tourism Commission. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ "The fires keep burning". The Mercury. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- ^ "The old Dutch Mill at Lyndoch". State Library of Victoria. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "The Old Mill". City of South Perth. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- ^ "Cooper's Mill". Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ "Inlet Park and Chapman's Mill". Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
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