Wearmouth, windmill
Wearmouth, windmill
HER Number
419
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Wearmouth, windmill
Place
Monkwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
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 Bishop Hatfield's Survey of c.1381 John Hobson held, among other things, the windmill of Wearmouth. This mill was probably somewhere in the parish of Bishopwearmouth, south of the River Wear.
Easting
439291
Northing
557009
Grid Reference
NZ439291557009
Sources
<< HER 419 >> W. Greenwell, ed. 1856, Bishop Hatfield's Survey, Surtees Society, 32, p. 133