Tyne and Wear HER(948): South Shields, windmill - Details
948
S Tyneside
South Shields, windmill
South Shields
NZ36NE
Industrial
Wind Power Site
Windmill
Medieval
C16
Documentary Evidence
It is clear that the first mill at Shields was a watermill at Mill Dam (HER no. 947). By 1530, however, it seems possible that there was also a windmill, since the extensive repairs included not only work on the Mill Dam, but also the sawing of wood for sails and mill arms. Note, however, that the bursar's rental of 1539 records only a mill let to Christopher Fenwick. By 1580 the doubt is resolved - Cuthbert Fenwick of Shele Milne was renting the watermill at $10 and the windmill at $1 6s 8d, and was due to pay a $40 fine for the grant of a lease of the latter. There is no information about the location of this mill.
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NZ3667
<< HER 948 >> Rev. W. Greenwell, 1872, Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society, 58, p. 309
J. Booth, ed. 1889, Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis, Surtees Society, 82, p. 198
J. Raine, ed. 1844, The Durham Household, Book Surtees Society, 18, p. 198
G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, pp. 64, 65, 71