Busy Cottage Mill, mill race

HER Number:
5681

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Busy Cottage Mill, mill race

Place:
Jesmond

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific:
Mill Race

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Earthwork

Description:
Millrace from Mabel's Mill (HER 1402) to Deep Dene House Flint Mill (HER 4033) to Busy Cottage Corn Mill (HER 4137), where it ran into a mill pond (HER 5683). Would have been clay lined originally. A large proportion of the race survives as an impressive earthwork. It is best viewed from the modern wooden footbridge which crosses it at NZ2610 6662. A modern sewer runs through it.

Easting:
426190

Northing:
566310

Grid Reference:
NZ426190566310

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5681 >> Pers. Comm. Jesmond Dene Rangers, 2004; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2010, Millfield House, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Excavation