Sedgeletch Mill

HER Number

3139

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sedgeletch Mill

Place

Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Food and Drink Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Corn Mill

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows Sedgeletch Mill (Corn), the site of a water-driven corn mill adjacent to Moors Burn. Theorigins of the mill are obscure, but buildings at this location are recorded on the Newbottle tithe award map of 1838.The mill was fed by a mill race running some 400 metres from the south. It had been infilled by 1896 and the mill and associated buildings appear to have been replaced with terraced housing. No visible trace of the mill race survives within the area which has recently been re-developed.

Easting

432580

Northing

550600

Grid Reference

NZ432580550600

Sources

<< HER 3139 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2001, Sunderland Central Route, Multi Modal Study; Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2022, Land north of Mulberry Way, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear: an archaeological desk-based assessment