Dorset Windmills
Welcome to the Dorset Windmills Website researched and maintained by :
Richard Crumbleholme (RC) of Old Manor Cottage, Winterbourne Steepleton, Dorset DT2 9LG UK
Contact e mail : r.crumbleholme (insert the @ symbol here) gmail.com
Linked to Dorset Online Parish Clerk Network
Please click on the three bars in the top left hand corner of the page to access the menu - this will appear on the left margin
Easton North Windmill , Portland, Dorset
(sketch by local artist Will Pye c1890)
Above : This windmill (fully restored & working in the late 1980's) in a small French village in the Cotes-d'Armor department of northern Brittany first kindled my interest in windmills
Above : The county of Dorset is on the south coast of England
Page Header above : A print showing Baiter windmill in Poole Harbour. (built 1543)
There general pages on Dorset Windmills and also a gazetteer that expands out to give all known historic sites.
The windmills at Easton on the Isle of Portland whose stone towers still survive have their own section.
All transcriptions on this site are intended for use in personal and private research only.
Website created February 2011 - updated Nov 2020
My other Dorset OPC websites are :
Winterbourne Abbas OPC : https://sites.google.com/view/winterbourne-abbas
Winterbourne Steepleton OPC : sites.google.com/site/winterbournesteepletonopc