List of windmills in Australia

A list of traditional windmills in Australia.

Locations

New South Wales

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

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
Kingston Kingston Mill Post 1842-43[5] Windmill World

Queensland

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
Brisbane The Old Windmill Tower 1828 Windmill World

South Australia

Location Name of mill
and coordinates 		Type Built Notes Photograph
Adelaide City Mill Smock
Adelaide West Terrace Mill Tower
Sketch of City Mill, South View (F.R. Nixon)(GN10011).jpg
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

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

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

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

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

  1. ^ "Windmill Hill Group, including Ruins". Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Cattai Estate". Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Mount Gilead". Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  4. ^ "The Dexter - Turbine Windmill". The Windmill Journal of Australia and New Zealand. 19 (1).
  5. ^ "Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (KAVHA)". Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Flour Mill, Hay Valley". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Port Lincoln's Old Mill". South Australian Tourism Commission. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  8. ^ "The fires keep burning". The Mercury. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  9. ^ "The old Dutch Mill at Lyndoch". State Library of Victoria. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  10. ^ "The Old Mill". City of South Perth. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  11. ^ "Cooper's Mill". Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Inlet Park and Chapman's Mill". Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
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