Moor Mill
Moor Mill
HER Number
              666
          District
              Gateshead
          Site Name
              Moor Mill
          Place
              Kibblesworth
          Map Sheet
              NZ25NE
          Class
              Industrial
          Site Type: Broad
              Power Generation Site
          Site Type: Specific
              Watermill
          General Period
              MEDIEVAL
          Specific Period
              Medieval 1066 to 1540
          Form of Evidence
              Documentary Evidence
          Description
              In Hatfield's Survey (c.1382) the tenants of Kibblesworth paid 6d p.a. rent "pro stangno" (pond or mill dam) of one mill there. In a deed of 1627 concerned with property in Kibblesworth there is specific mention of a water mill called "Moore Milne". These two documents do not necessarily refer to the same mill, but it must at least be possible that they do. Marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map is "Moor Mill (Corn)", equipped with a long pond, with sluice and dam, and a very long mill race, part of which is called Small Waters. The mill no longer exists, the pond barely, but the race can be tracked south to c. NZ 2555 5660.
          Easting
              425630
          Northing
              557230
          Grid Reference
              NZ425630557230
    Sources
              << HER 666 >>   W. Greenwell, ed. 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 107
H.E. Bell, 1939, Calendar of Deeds given to the Society by Lord Ravensworth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4,XVI, p. 69 no. 81
          H.E. Bell, 1939, Calendar of Deeds given to the Society by Lord Ravensworth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4,XVI, p. 69 no. 81