Boldon windmill

HER Number:
958

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Boldon windmill

Place:
Boldon

Map Sheet:
NZ36SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Wind Power Site

Site Type: Specific:
Windmill

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1381 the tenants of Boldon paid $17 13s 4d rent for one windmill and one watermill: it is not clear which of these might have been the mill mentioned in Boldon Book (a survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset). There is no medieval evidence for the location of this windmill, which may or may not have been upon the site of the surviving 18th century windmill east of West Boldon.

Easting:
3544

Northing:
6122

Grid Reference:
NZ35446122

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 958 >> W. Greenwell, 1852, Boldon Book, Surtees Society, 25, p. 45 W. Greenwell, 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 100 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1915, Miscellanea, ref. to watermill near Boldon, 3, VI (for 1913-14), p. 212