South Shields, watermill

HER Number:
947

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, watermill

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Water Power Production Site

Site Type: Specific:
Watermill

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The prior and convent's tenants of Shields were bound to grind their corn at the mill of the manor, always called Westoe mill but, according to the antiquarian, Hodgson, situated on the west bank of the inlet by the Mill Dam. The earliest reference he cites is 1347, and the mill and its "pond or dam" underwent repairs on a number of occasions from the 14th century onwards. In 1580, and probably earlier, there was also a windmill (HER no. 948), and both were leased to Cuthbert Fenwick of Shele Milne.

Easting:
359

Northing:
669

Grid Reference:
NZ359669

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 947 >> J. Booth, ed. 1889, Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society, 82, pp. 27-44, 146, 157, 166, 198 Canon Fowler, ed. 1898, Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, Surtees Society, II 100, pp. 303, 547, 551 Surtees Society, Household Book, pp. 16, 80, 82, 274 G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, pp. 53, 64, 71