Boldon windmill

HER Number

958

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Boldon windmill

Place

Boldon

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Windmill

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

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

435440

Northing

561220

Grid Reference

NZ435440561220

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