Houghton and Rainton mill
Houghton and Rainton mill
HER Number
266
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Houghton and Rainton mill
Place
Houghton-le-Spring
Map Sheet
NZ34NW
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
In 1586 it was recorded that a watermill, called Houghton and Raynton mill in Co. Durham, was part of the possessions of the dissolved hospital of St. James, near Northallerton. There are various other references to mills at Rainton, and East Rainton between the late 12th and late 16th centuries, but no precise locations are known.
Easting
433000
Northing
548000
Grid Reference
NZ433000548000
Sources
<< HER 266 >> W. Brown, 1910, Abstracts of grants of chapels and chantry lands in the co. of Durham, 3, IV (for 1909-10), p. 6 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle,
W. Greenwell, ed. 1852, Boldon Buke, Surtees Society, 25, p. 48
W. Greenwell ed. 1871, Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society 58, pp. 19, 124, 312
Surtees Society, Halmote Court Rolls, p. 219
Prior's Kitchen Durham, Durham Dean and Chapter MSS, 1345, Rental of the House of Durham, 1345-46
W. Greenwell, ed. 1852, Boldon Buke, Surtees Society, 25, p. 48
W. Greenwell ed. 1871, Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society 58, pp. 19, 124, 312
Surtees Society, Halmote Court Rolls, p. 219
Prior's Kitchen Durham, Durham Dean and Chapter MSS, 1345, Rental of the House of Durham, 1345-46