List of windmills in South Africa
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A list of windmills in South Africa
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
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Cape Town
| Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Ground, Cape Town Cape Town Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality... |
Clapperton's Mill | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1773 | 1903 | |
| Cape Town | Valkenburg Mill | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1803 | 1827 | |
| Durbanville, Cape Town Durbanville, Cape Town Durbanville is a former town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, it now forms part of the greater City of Cape Town metropolitan area. Durbanville is a rural residential suburb on the northern outskirts of the metropolis and is surrounded by farms producing wine and... |
Onze Molen 33°49′56"S 18°38′20"E |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
c1801 | Windmill World | |
| Durbanville | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1895 | |||
| Maitland Cape Town Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality... |
Nieuwe Molen 33°55′57"S 18°28′55"E |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1782 | Windmill World | |
| Mowbray, Cape Town Mowbray, Cape Town Mowbray is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. Its original name was Driekoppen .-Geography:Mowbray is bounded on the west by the M3 freeway, beyond which lies Devil's Peak, and on the north by the N2 freeway, beyond which lies the suburb of Observatory... |
Mostert's Mill Mostert's Mill Mostert's Mill is a historic windmill in Mowbray, Cape Town, South Africa. It was built in 1796 and is the oldest surviving, and only complete, windmill in South Africa.-History:... 33°57′08"S 18°27′58"E |
Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
c1796 | Windmill World |  |
| Pinelands, Cape Town Pinelands, Cape Town The "garden city" suburb of Pinelands is located on the edge of the southern suburbs of Cape Town in South Africa and is known for its large thatched houses. The suburb is primarily residential and is often praised for its peacefulness and abundance of trees... |
Oude Molen 33°56′24"S 18°29′23"E |
1717 | Windmill World | ||
| Broekman, Salt River, Cape Town Salt River, Cape Town Salt River is a mainly industrial suburb of Cape Town located near Table Bay to the east of the city. It is named after a river of the same name, this being a continuation of the Black River. The name Salt River is a translation of the Dutch "Soutrivier"... |
Tower Mill Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1844 | 1863 | ||
| Salt River | The Hope Mill | Tower Mill Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1844 | 1863 | |
| Woodstock | Pyott's Mill | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
Other locations
| Location | Name of mill and coordinates |
Type | Built | Notes | Photograph |
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| Alexandria Alexandria, Eastern Cape Alexandria, South Africa is a small farming town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and is situated 100 km North East of Port Elizabeth on the way to Bushman's River Mouth, Kenton-on-Sea and Port Alfred... |
Whitney Mill | Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1856 | Standing in 1942, demolished by 1974 | |
| Bathurst Bathurst, Eastern Cape Bathurst is about 12 kilometers inland from Port Alfred, on the R67, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its chief claim to fame is that it was the administrative centre for the 1820 British Settlers who were established in the district as a buffer between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa... |
Bathurst Mill | 1830 | |||
| Bathurst | (2nd mill) | 1830 | 1855 | ||
| Bathurst | (3rd mill) | 1840 | 1855 | ||
| Bathurst | (4th mill) | 1855 | 1855 | ||
| Bonnie Doon, Somerset West | Bonnie Doon Windpump | tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1974 | ||
| Bredasdorp Bredasdorp Bredasdorp is a town in the Southern Overberg region of the Western Cape, South Africa, and the main economic and service hub of that region. It lies on the northern edge of the Agulhas Plain, about south-east of Cape Town and north of Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa.-History:The... |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
1849 | 1908, demolished by 1912 | ||
| Clumber | 1860 | 1870 | |||
| Clumber | (2nd mill) | 1860 | 1870 | ||
| Cradock Cradock, Eastern Cape Cradock is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, in the upper valley of the Great Fish River, by rail northeast of Port Elizabeth. The town is the administrative seat of the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape. The estimated population... |
Frederick Korsten's Mill | tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1812 | 1860 | |
| Edenvale Edenvale, Gauteng Edenvale is a town on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa. It started out in 1903, after the Anglo Boer War as a small settlement named Rietfontein which sprung up around the Rietfontein Gold Mine. It was made a municipality in 1942. It was initially populated by Cornish mineworkers. Modern... |
De Molen 26°08′48"S 28°09′17"E |
Smock Smock mill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind... |
¾ scale replica of Zeldenrust, Westerwijtwerd, Groningen, Netherlands. | Windmill World | |
| Grahamstown Grahamstown Grahamstown is a city in the Eastern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa and is the seat of the Makana municipality. The population of greater Grahamstown, as of 2003, was 124,758. The population of the surrounding areas, including the actual city was 41,799 of which 77.4% were black,... |
Heath's Mill | Post mill Post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The earliest post mills in England are thought to have... |
1817 | 1843 | |
| Grahamstown | Richardson's Mill | 1830 | 1876 | ||
| Grahamstown | (3rd mill) | 1850 | 1855 | ||
| Grahamstown | (4th mill) | 1850 | 1855 | ||
| Grahamstown | (5th mill) | 1855 | 1855 | ||
| Kaffir Drift | 1830 | 1835 | |||
| Malmesbury Malmesbury, Western Cape Malmesbury is a town with 37,529 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa, about 65 km north of Cape Town.The town is the largest in the Swartland due to the dark "Renosterbos" , an indigenous plant that turns black in the warm, dry summers... |
Dassenburg Mill | tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1843 | ||
| Missionary Station Ebenezer, Olifants River | Hollow post | 1845 | 1845 | ||
| Onderneming (Liesbeek Valley Liesbeek River The Liesbeek River is a river in Cape Town in South Africa. It is named after a small river in Holland. The first "free burghers" of the Dutch East India Company were granted land to farm along the river in 1657, shortly after the first Dutch settlers arrived in the Cape. The river was... ) |
Onderneming Mill | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
1849 | 1853 | |
| Port Frances | 1830 | 1835 | |||
| Salem | 1845 | 1855 | |||
| Saldanha Saldanha, Western Cape Saldanha, also known as Saldanha Bay, is a town of 22,000 people, located north of Cape Town on the northern shore of Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its situation as a natural sheltered harbour has led to development as a port for the export of iron ore from Sishen in... |
Hollow post | 1848 | 1848 | ||
| Sidbury | 1845 | 1855 | |||
| Southwell | 1860 | 1870 | |||
| Southwell | (2nd mill) | 1860 | 1870 | ||
| Trappes Valley | 1835 | 1835 | |||
| Windmill, Agter Paarl | Tower Tower mill A tower mill is a type of windmill which consists of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sits a roof or cap which can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.... |
Late C19th | |||
| Winterberg | 1840 | 1845 | |||
| Winterberg | (2nd mill) | 1845 | 1845 |