Herrington Mill

HER Number

3124

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Herrington Mill

Place

Penshaw

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Paper Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Paper Mill

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Herrington Mill (Corn), with mill race (HER19088) located on the east side of the burn above the point where Philadelphia Lane (A182) crosses the burn today. Designed to serve West Herrington township probably in the medieval period. By 1768 it is shown as a paper mill on Armstrong's county map and as a flint mill on Greenwood's map of 1820. By c.1858 it was a corn mill.

Easting

433140

Northing

552600

Grid Reference

NZ433140552600

Sources

<< HER 3124 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 13; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, Penshaw: Not just a monument - Historic Village Atlas