Billy Mill, Billy Windmill

HER Number:
2004

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Billy Mill, Billy Windmill

Place:
Billy Mill

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Wind Power Site

Site Type: Specific:
Windmill

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Billy Windmill is marked as 'Ruin' on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use before 1858. It is not marked as ruinous on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, however, so may have been rebuilt before 1895.

Easting:
3374

Northing:
6914

Grid Reference:
NZ33746914

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2004 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405846; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/147 5339 15-APR-1946