Milneton village

HER Number:
771

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Milneton village

Place:
Milneton

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Settlement

Site Type: Specific:
Deserted Settlement

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Milneton is listed in Richard I's confirmation of their properties to the prior and convent of Tynemouth in 1189, and Hugh de Milneton in 1264, and his son William in 1291, both did homage for this holding to the abbot of St. Alban's. The name appears in lists of the priory's property in the 13th century and 14th century, sometimes coupled with Sheles, but does not occur after 1392. The Northumberland County History notes: "Milneton lay near North Shields, and perhaps took its name from Tynemouth windmill on the eastern bank of the Spital dene... Tynemouth...has swallowed up the tiny township of Milneton, of which the insignificance may be gauged by the entry against it of 4d for cornage, the average assessment of the neighbouring townships being ten times that amount".

Easting:
36271

Northing:
68875

Grid Reference:
NZ3627168875

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 771 >> W.S. Gibson, 1846, The History of the Monastery at Tynemouth, I, 61, 114, 138, 153, 167: II (1847), lxxxv H.H.E. Craster, 1907, Northumberland County History, VIII, 55, 67n, 115, 117, 209, 247-8, 369, 422