Elswick Mill (Sinton's Mill)

HER Number

4097

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Elswick Mill (Sinton's Mill)

Place

Elswick

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Windmill

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Elswick Mill (Corn). This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was probably out of use by 1895. A corn mill stood on this site from at least 1638. A windmill is shown at this location on Horsley's plan of 1732. On Isaac Thompson's survey of 1743 the lane running south from Westgate Road on which the windmill is located is called Mill Lane. The mill was damaged in the great storm of 1839 and had been partly demolished by 1889. Known as Sinton's Mill.

Easting

423100

Northing

564350

Grid Reference

NZ423100564350

Sources

<< HER 4097 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97; Horsley, 1732; I. Thompson, 1743, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4; F. Manders, Newcastle upon Tyne - A Selection of the Earliest Photographs