Benwell, mill

HER Number

1362

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Benwell, mill

Place

Benwell

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Watermill

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Elizabethan 1558 to 1603

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

The 1578/9 survey of the manor of Benwell mentions a watermill, worth 20s. This is repeated in the 1608 survey of crown property when it is specifically described as a water corn mill. On a 1637 map a mill is shown near the foot of the "Lysdon Burne" running south into the Tyne. On the first edition Ordnance Survey plan it is either the East Denton Burn or Dean.

Easting

421400

Northing

563500

Grid Reference

NZ421400563500

Sources

<< HER 1362 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Benwell Township, Northumberland County History, XIII, 228 and map between 230-1