Ryton mill

The earliest reference to a mill at Ryton is in Boldon Buke (1183 survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset) , when it was held by the men of Ryton, and in the late 14th century the men of Ryton still held what was then specifically described as a watermill, for the rent of 106s 8d. In 1647 there was a water corn mill in Ryton Lordship, leased from the Bishop of Durham in a document dated 24th October 1631. Whether these references are all to the same mill is impossible to say, and where it/they may have been sited is unknown, but Holburn Dene is a likely possibility.