Houghton-le-Spring, Flint Mill

HER Number:
3164

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Houghton-le-Spring, Flint Mill

Place:
Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Crushing Mill

Site Type: Specific:
Flint Mill

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The site of a Flint Mill with Mill Dam appears on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan adjacent to a stream feeding into Moors Burn. The date it was established is not known, but it was mapped in 1856 as two principal buildings with a mill dam to the east. The mill dam had been infilled by 1896, and the buildings presumably no longer functioned as a mill. By 1939 they had been demolished in advance of the Flint Mill Sewage Works to the north. The site of the mill buildings is currently a combination of grassland and scub.

Easting:
3306

Northing:
5031

Grid Reference:
NZ33065031

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3164 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13 Northern Archaeological Associates, 2001, Sunderland Central Route, Multi Modal Study