Billy Windmill

HER Number

2004

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Billy Windmill

Place

Billy Mill

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Windmill

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Billy Windmill is marked as 'Ruin' on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was probably out of use before 1858. It is not marked as ruinous on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, however, so may have been rebuilt before 1895.

Easting

433740

Northing

569140

Grid Reference

NZ433740569140

Sources

<< HER 2004 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405846; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/147 5339 15-APR-1946