Hendon, Windmill

HER Number:
2896

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hendon, Windmill

Place:
Hendon

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Wind Power Site

Site Type: Specific:
Windmill

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
4089

Northing:
5642

Grid Reference:
NZ40895642

Lats/Lons:

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