The best-known windmills in England
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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London keeps a few: The Brixton Windmill is 3 km from Streatham, the Wimbledon Windmill Museum is near Earlsfield, and Upminster Windmill is 5 km from Romford. Lincolnshire has the Maud Foster Windmill in Boston, Sibsey Trader Mill 7 km out, Moulton Windmill near Spalding. Kent has Willesborough Windmill 2 km from Ashford, Stocks Windmill (1781) and Drapers Windmill at Margate. Green's Windmill (1807) is a kilometer from Nottingham's center.
RLQuest knows 187 named windmills in England, 40 of them with a Wikipedia article. They are among the easier targets on this site: mostly flat country, visible from far off, often with a road straight to the door. The app still wants the walk. A windmill quest is confirmed by the route you recorded, and the fields between you and the sails become tiles on your map.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 135 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
