Wimbledon windmill is a real wind farm, which is in excellent condition and is fully capable to grind grain. However, now there is a Museum detailing the history and development of windmills – from primitive stone age to include wind turbines.

In Britain the early nineteenth century, grain was milled with steam and water mechanisms in Wimbledon. In 1816 carpenter from Rochampton Charles Marsh has applied for a lease of land for wind mill on the territory of Wimbledon common. The land was given for 99 years with an annual rent of two shillings – with the condition that the lessee will construct the mill "for the benefit and convenience of the neighborhood".

Charles Marsh was a carpenter, not a mechanic, and built an unusual structure. It was a two-storey house with a tower, on which the self-regulating sails with a diameter of 15 meters construction William Cubitt. Vertical shaft passing through the center of the building, turned the millstones. The whole structure is automatically turned into the wind.

The machine was working properly until 1864, when local landowner the Earl Spencer has announced that it intends to build a mansion. Litigation lasted six years, the earth has moved to the local government. Marsh sold the company to Wimbledon, but took all the "stuffing" of the mill. The building was rebuilt for housing. In 1902 there wrote the book "scouting for boys" Baron Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the scout movement. In 1975 the mill was restored and turned into a Museum.

On two floors housed an exhibition about the different types of windmills of all ages. Unusual look exposed there is a huge gears of wood (iron were too expensive), smagiausias fat bronze bearings. The strong impression quern (such appeared for 500 years BC) with a gap between the burrs just a quarter of a millimeter. Here is an extensive collection of woodworking Handtools from the XV century.

One of the rooms on the ground floor retains the appearance of dwellings from the Victorian era. The visitor presses the button – you hear a purring cat. In the basement there is a diorama showing the process of construction of the mill – well-dressed carpenters sawing logs manual saws. A special stand dedicated to the father of scoutisme Baron Baden-Powell.

The Museum is engaged exclusively by volunteers, so it is only open on weekends.