Hendon, Windmill
Hendon, Windmill
HER Number
2896
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Hendon, Windmill
Place
Hendon
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Power Generation Site
Site Type: Specific
Windmill
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
A new mill, brick-built, was burnt down in 1827, then rebuilt and known as Butterflint's Mill. The windmill is marked as ‘Old and in Ruins’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, having been demolished to make way for a railway.
Easting
440890
Northing
556420
Grid Reference
NZ440890556420
Sources
<< HER 2896 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8
Clay, Miller & Milburn, 1984, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, p 51
Clay, Miller & Milburn, 1984, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, p 51