Busy Cottage Corn Mill

Busy Cottage Mill (Corn). This was a Corn mill with a forge, converted from former ironworks buildings (see HER 5680) by 1855. There is a Directory entry in 1855 for "R. Davidson, corn miller, Busy Cottage" and he was followed by J. Davidson in 1858 and J. James in 1861 after which entries cease. In 1858 two workers' cottages were built, which are probably the Busy Cottages we see today. The mill was shown as a flint mill on OS maps up to 1878. When Lord Armstrong made Jesmond Dene into a park, the mill ceased to work. Not named as a corn mill on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was probably out of use by 1895.