Kibblesworth, Moor Mill

HER Number:
666

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Kibblesworth, Moor Mill

Place:
Kibblesworth

Map Sheet:
NZ25NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Water Power Production Site

Site Type: Specific:
Watermill

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In Hatfield's Survey (c.1382) the tenants of Kibblesworth paid 6d p.a. rent "pro stangno" (pond or mill dam) of one mill there. In a deed of 1627 concerned with property in Kibblesworth there is specific mention of a water mill called "Moore Milne". These two documents do not necessarily refer to the same mill, but it must at least be possible that they do. Marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map is "Moor Mill (Corn)", equipped with a long pond, with sluice and dam, and a very long mill race, part of which is called Small Waters. The mill no longer exists, the pond barely, but the race can be tracked south to c. NZ 2555 5660.

Easting:
2563

Northing:
5723

Grid Reference:
NZ25635723

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 666 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 107 H.E. Bell, 1939, Calendar of Deeds given to the Society by Lord Ravensworth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4,XVI, p. 69 no. 81