Mill Dam

HER Number

2591

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Mill Dam

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Mill Dam

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Mill Dam is shown on a map of South Shields of 1768. By the first edition Ordnance Survey map, surveyed in 1855, the dam has gone, presumably filled in and built over. The name survives on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan as Mill Dam Valley.

Easting

436140

Northing

566950

Grid Reference

NZ436140566950

Sources

<< HER 2591 >> County Conservation Team, 1989, Simonside, South Shields, Copy of Richardson, 1768, Plan of.South Shields. p.5; Prospect Archaeology, 2015, South Shields Masterplan - Archaeological Assessment