High Mill
High Mill
HER Number
4940
District
Newcastle
Site Name
High Mill
Place
Newburn
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Power Generation Site
Site Type: Specific
Watermill
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
There was formerly a water mill on the burn, about a quarter of a mile north from the village, which was called the High Mill. It was swept away by a flood about the time that the Tyne Bridge fell in 1771.
Easting
416900
Northing
565500
Grid Reference
NZ416900565500
Sources
<< HER 4940 >> J. Armstrong, History of Newburn; NG Rippeth, 1993, Newburn in old picture postcards