Bembridge Windmill
The only surviving windmill on the Isle of Wight, built around 1700, its wooden machinery intact, and once painted by Turner.
Bembridge Windmill was built around 1700 and is the only surviving windmill on the Isle of Wight. It stopped working in 1913 and is now managed by the National Trust. Its four-storey stone tower houses intact wooden gears, millstones, and hoisting mechanisms, and you can climb narrow stairs level by level to learn how flour was ground. The painter Turner once made it the subject of a work. Open grass surrounds the windmill, with views over Bembridge Harbour. Admission is charged, free for National Trust members. It lies on the west side of Bembridge village and can be visited together with the Brading Roman Villa and Bembridge Harbour.
Opening hours
About late Mar to early Nov 10:30–17:00
Nearby sights
- Dinosaur Isle
- Brading Roman Villa
- Sandown
- Ryde Pier
- Shanklin Old Village
- Shanklin Chine
- Quarr Abbey
- Isle of Wight Steam Railway