Winlaton mill

HER Number

634

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Winlaton mill

Place

Winlaton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Food and Drink Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Corn Mill

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A mill, rendering 5.5 marcs, is listed in Boldon Buke (1183 survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset), under Winlaton and Barlow, but there is no mention of it in Hatfield's Survey of the later 14th century. Its site - presumably on one of the burns running into the Derwent - and later history are unknown, but it is thought to have no connection with the modern Winlaton Mill.

Easting

417000

Northing

562000

Grid Reference

NZ417000562000

Sources

<< HER 634 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1852, Boldon Buke, Surtees Society, 25, p. 69