Heworth windmill

HER Number:
715

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth windmill

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Wind Power Site

Site Type: Specific:
Windmill

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The earliest reference to a mill at Heworth is 1279, but the first specific reference to a windmill was 1354-5 when 21d was spent on the repair of its sailyards. By 1373 there were 2 mills here, a watermill and a windmill, and both were let for a term of 9 years to a group of 7. In 1380 the windmill was let for a year. The prior and convent of Durham still had 2 mills at Heworth in 1464. The location of this mill is a guess: the high ground near Upper Heworth seems a likely site.

Easting:
28

Northing:
60

Grid Reference:
NZ2860

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 715 >> J. Booth, ed. 1889, Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society, 82, pp. 119, 121, 164 Canon Fowler, ed. 1898, Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, Surtees Society, 100, p. 555