Whitburn/Cleadon medieval windmill

HER Number:
962

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Whitburn/Cleadon medieval windmill

Place:
Cleadon, Whitburn

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW 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 1307 the rent of the mills of Cleadon and Whitburn, with Boldon, was listed in a roll of Bishop Bec. In 1381 all the bond tenants of the vills of Whitburn and Cleadon held a windmill, and were required to work there. It thus appears that there was only one mill, and there is no clue as to its location. One (or even both) of the two 18th century mills which survive, could mark the site of their medieval predecessor(s).

Easting:
4070

Northing:
6257

Grid Reference:
NZ40706257

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 962 >> W. Greenwell, 1852, Boldon Book, Surtees Society, 25, p. xxv W. Greenwell, 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, pp. 104-05