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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

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