Wearmouth, windmill

HER Number:
419

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Wearmouth, windmill

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE NZ45NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Wind Power Site

Site Type: Specific:
Windmill

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In Bishop Hatfield's Survey of c.1381 John Hobson held, among other things, the windmill of Wearmouth. This mill was probably somewhere in the parish of Bishopwearmouth, south of the River Wear.

Easting:
39291

Northing:
57009

Grid Reference:
NZ3929157009

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 419 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 133