Ouseburn Flint Mill

Ouseburn Flint Mill

HER Number
4328
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Ouseburn Flint Mill
Place
Ouseburn
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Pottery Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Flint Mill
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
This Mill is shown on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan, but is not shown on the 1st edition plan, indicating that it was built after 1858. This was Ouseburn Flint Mill, part of Stepney Pottery. On the opposite side of the stream there was a steam driven Flint Mill and pot bank, which worked up to 1898.
Easting
426120
Northing
564670
Grid Reference
NZ426120564670
Sources
<< HER 4328 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NE
I. Ayris, & D. Bolland, Ouseburn Heritage p.23, 33