Monument record 8250/1/1 - Cottingham Corn Mill

Possible site of mill recorded at Domesday in 1086. A mill is depicted on 18th and 19th-century maps. In 1922 the mill was described as disused and there was a serious fire in 1930.

{1} Shown on 1st Edition OS Map and 1950s OS Map. Now demolished.

{3} 1086 Domesday survey records Cottingham with one mill rendering 40d.
1705 John Richardson, miller at Cottingham
1779 Samuel Burditt of Middleton, baker, miller, tanner and maltster insured utensils and stock in his water corn mill and stable adjoining for £400
1922 Mill described as disused
1930 Serious fire at mill

Shown on Eyre & Jeffries 1791 map and marked as Cottingham Mill on 1827 Bryant's map.

A straight channel, about 400m long, approaches the site of the mill from the NW. At the mill site the main flow of water is on the north of the channel where there is some fallen brickwork. The south side of the channel seems to have been the former wheel race. South of the mill site is the dried up course of the by-pass channel, crossed by a brick segmental arch bridge, 2.5m span, probably on the line of the track from the mill to Mill Road.

<1> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, (unchecked) (Database). SNN102279.

<2> 1825, Cottingham cum Middleton NRO Inclosure Plan 48, (unchecked) (Map). SNN102462.

<3> STARMER G., 2002?, Northamptonshire Watermills Survey 2001 - 2002 (A-H), p. 31 (Report). SNN105520.

Record last edited

Oct 2 2020 11:55AM