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A Landscape photograph taken by Photographer Patrick Steel of Wimbledon Windmill on Wimbledon Common

Wimbledon Windmill is a Grade II listed windmill situated on Wimbledon Common in the London Borough of Merton (originally in Surrey), in the west of South London, and is preserved as a museum.

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The Windmill: Wimbledon Windmill is a Grade II listed windmill situated on Wimbledon Common in the London Borough of Merton (originally in Surrey), in the west of South London, and is preserved as a museum.

In the 18th century there were already a very large number of water and steam powered corn mills in Wandsworth, producing flour on an industrial scale. Many of these were owned by John Watney whose house ‘Rushmere’ still stands on Southside, Wimbledon Common. So it seems strange that in 1799 he should apply to the Manor Court to enclose a piece of land on Wimbledon Common for the purpose of erecting a windmill. But it appears that the residents of Wimbledon were not wholly satisfied with factory produced flour and wanted to have their own mill for local use.

John Watney died before he had put his plan into effect, and it was not until 1816 that a new application was made by a Roehampton carpenter, Charles March. The following year he was granted a 99 year lease on a small plot of land on Wimbledon Common, at an annual rent of two shillings, ‘upon this special condition that he shall erect and keep up a public Corn Mill for the advantage and convenience of the neighbourhood’

Wimbledon Common is a large open space in Wimbledon, south-west London, totalling 460 hectares (1,140 acres). There are three named areas: Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath, and Putney Lower Common, which together are managed under the name Wimbledon and Putney Commons. Putney Lower Common is separated from the rest of the Common by about 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometres) of built-up area of southwest Putney

Wimbledon Common consists mainly of a plateau of acidic grassland, the most notable area being The Plain. Scarcely a crest breaks the smooth table and nowhere can you find a summit. Soils are impoverished gravels, ideal for heathland and bogs. The land falls away to the west down through the other main habitat, mature woodlands, to Beverley Brook, where the geology is predominantly London clay

The golf course used by the two golf clubs is also a large feature of Wimbledon Common