Houghton-le-Spring, Houghton and Rainton mill

HER Number:
266

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Houghton-le-Spring, Houghton and Rainton mill

Place:
Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Water Power Production Site

Site Type: Specific:
Watermill

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C16

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:
33

Northing:
48

Grid Reference:
NZ3348

Lats/Lons:

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