Mason, windmill

HER Number:
1332

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Mason, windmill

Place:
Mason

Map Sheet:
NZ27SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Wind Power Site

Site Type: Specific:
Windmill

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C15

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1485...the trustees of the late Thomas Forster of Brenkley granted to Newminster Abbey all Forster's land in Mason and a windmill there.... The site of this mill could be at the existing farm of Mill Hill, although no mill is shown there on the first edition Ordnance Survey plan.

Easting:
218

Northing:
730

Grid Reference:
NZ218730

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1332 >> M.H. Dodds, 1926, Mason Township, Northumberland County History, XII, 473 J.T. Fowler,1878, The Newminster Cartulary, Surtees Society, 66, pp. 257-9