Tyne and Wear HER(10889): West Boldon, windmill, Civil War skirmish - Details
10889
S Tyneside
West Boldon, windmill, Civil War skirmish
West Boldon
NZ36SE
Defence
Battlefield
Post Medieval
C17
Documentary Evidence
On 25th March the Scots dug in cannon emplacements and at 2pm there was a skirmish at Boldon windmill. Hand-to-hand fighting near Boldon Hills followed (the so-called Battle of Boldon Hills is described under the Battle of Hylton, HER 26).
3543
6122
NZ35436122
M.M. Meikle and C.M. Newman, 2007, Sunderland and its Origins - monks to mariners, pp. 126-128