Laman or Laymedon mill

Laman or Laymedon mill

HER Number
1313
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Laman or Laymedon mill
Place
Newburn
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Power Generation Site
Site Type: Specific
Watermill
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
In 1528 a water mill called Laman mill, in the manor of Newburn, was let to Leonard Musgrave for 41 years at 20 p.a. and 6s 8d for the mill. It appears again as Laymedon mill, paying 6s 8d, in the 1592 survey. Its location is not known, nor whether it could have been one of the anonymous water mills and corn mills mentioned in 1250, 1367, 1499/ 1500. In 1592 there were 2 corn mills in addition to Laymedon.
Easting
417001
Northing
565221
Grid Reference
NZ417001565221
Sources
<< HER 1313 >> M.H. Dodds, 1930, Newburn and Newburn Hall Townships, Northumberland County History, XIII, 147
W.H. Knowles, 1915, 'Newburn Hall' and 'Manor House', Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XII, 195-6