High Moorsley, windmill

HER Number

17124

District

Sunderland

Site Name

High Moorsley, windmill

Place

Moorsley

Map Sheet

NZ34NE

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

The approximate location of the Low Moorsley windmill has been identified through field names recorded on the tithe plan and Dean and Chapter Estate Plan. It seems at Moorsley a cart track led from either end of High Moorsley to the hilltop where the windmill was situated. Moorsley's mill is mentioned in Priory records of 1340 but does not feature after the mid 14th century. It may have gone out of use by this time due to the demise in population.

Easting

433900

Northing

545500

Grid Reference

NZ433900545500

Sources

Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas p187; Tithe Map Moorsley, 1839, DDR/EA/TTH/1/167 and Dean and Chapter Estate Plan, 1843 DCD/E/AF/4/1-2