Mason, windmill
Mason, windmill
HER Number
1332
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Mason, windmill
Place
Mason
Map Sheet
NZ27SW
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 1485...the trustees of the late Thomas Forster of Brenkley granted to Newminster Abbey all Forster's land in Mason and a windmill there.... The site of this mill could be at the existing farm of Mill Hill, although no mill is shown there on the first edition Ordnance Survey plan.
Easting
421800
Northing
573000
Grid Reference
NZ421800573000
Sources
<< HER 1332 >> M.H. Dodds, 1926, Mason Township, Northumberland County History, XII, 473
J.T. Fowler,1878, The Newminster Cartulary, Surtees Society, 66, pp. 257-9
J.T. Fowler,1878, The Newminster Cartulary, Surtees Society, 66, pp. 257-9