Mill Hill Farm

HER Number

8395

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Mill Hill Farm

Place

Silksworth

Map Sheet

NZ35SE

Class

Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad

Farm

Site Type: Specific

Farmstead

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858. The first edition plan shows tracks leading to the T-shaped farm from the south and north-west, various separate fields and an outbuilding. A building is depicted on the same site on the estate map of 1714 giving a potential 17th or early 18th century date for the farmstead. Trade directory evidence suggests the farm was out of use between 1894-5 and was occupied by Joseph Botcherby from at least 1853.

Easting

437720

Northing

553080

Grid Reference

NZ437720553080

Sources

Ordnance Survey first edition, 1858; Wardell Armstrong Archaeology, 2013, Mill Hill, Silksworth, Sunderland, Archaeological Assessment; Estate Map of the Ettrick and Robinson Estate of Silksworth Hall, 1714 (HER 242)