Jarrow windmill

HER Number:
969

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow windmill

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

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 the early summer of 1291 Roger de Esshe came to Jarrow and so thoroughly dismantled a wind-mill which (Prior) Hoton had erected that not even the grinding-stones were left. The prior claimed loss of 10 years' use; the jury held he had lost six. The Ordnance Survey quote the same source for this site and claim that the argument was between Bishop Bec, who was accused of dismantling the prior's windmill, and Prior Richard. The mill was assailed in 1305. Its location is unknown.

Easting:
33

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ3365

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 969 >> R.K. Richardson, 1913, The Bishopric of Durham under Anthony Bek, 1283-1311, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, IX, p. 134 J. Clephan, 1886, The Painter Heugh, Newcastle: and the windmill, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, pp. 5-6