Jarrow windmill
Jarrow windmill
HER Number
969
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow windmill
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
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
In the early summer of 1291 Roger de Esshe came to Jarrow and so thoroughly dismantled a wind-mill which (Prior) Hoton had erected that not even the grinding-stones were left. The prior claimed loss of 10 years' use; the jury held he had lost six. The Ordnance Survey quote the same source for this site and claim that the argument was between Bishop Bec, who was accused of dismantling the prior's windmill, and Prior Richard. The mill was assailed in 1305. Its location is unknown.
Easting
433000
Northing
565000
Grid Reference
NZ433000565000
Sources
<< HER 969 >> R.K. Richardson, 1913, The Bishopric of Durham under Anthony Bek, 1283-1311, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, IX, p. 134
J. Clephan, 1886, The Painter Heugh, Newcastle: and the windmill, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, pp. 5-6
J. Clephan, 1886, The Painter Heugh, Newcastle: and the windmill, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XI, pp. 5-6