Tynemouth, Windmill

HER Number:
738

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Windmill

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Wind Power Site

Site Type: Specific:
Windmill

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A survey of Tynemouth in 1292 records 6 mills, but does not distinguish them. Tynemouth windmill is specifically mentioned in 1293, and is included in the property of the one-time priory leased to Sir Thomas Hilton after the Dissolution when it was in the tenure of John and Robert Dove. It was let in 1610 to two Londoners to hold of the Crown. According to the Northumberland County History, the mill was situated on the east bank of the Spital dene, and survived until it was burnt down in 1805. A mariners' asylum was erected on its site in 1837, but the 1st edition Ordnance Survey 6 inch map shows "Tynemouth Windmill Ruin" at a different (alternative?) location.

Easting:
365

Northing:
691

Grid Reference:
NZ365691

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 738 >> W.S. Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth, I, 217-18 H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Tynemouth Township, Northumberland County History, VIII, 219, 247-8, 261