Deckham, Windmill

HER Number

3825

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Deckham, Windmill

Place

Deckham

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Windmill

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Windmill at Carr Hill is marked as ‘Old’ on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was presumably out of use by 1857.

Easting

426540

Northing

561420

Grid Reference

NZ426540561420

Sources

<< HER 3825 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; I.C. Carlton, 1974, A Short History of Gateshead, p 77