🪵 Post Mills of the World

These are notable post mills — the oldest kind of windmill, in which the whole timber body is mounted on a central post and physically swung round to face the wind, a form that once stood in nearly every milling village of Europe. Each profile shows where the post mill stands, which country it is in, and a plain-English introduction from Wikipedia.

40 post mills from 4 countries are covered below, grouped by continent. Open any post mill for its full profile.

Europe (40)

Europe (40 post mills)

Coordinates are approximate locations. Descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached on our server. Data sourced from Wikidata. Related: Mountains · Lakes · Islands · World Heritage.