Monument record 638/33/5 - Medieval malt mill, High Street

{1}The tithe of the malt mill of Daventry was 6s 8d yearly, half the tithe of the king’s bakehouse. In 1571, however, the malt mill was said to lie next to the bakehouse on the south side of High Street, with a parcel of waste in front. Brown’s reconstruction of Daventry in 1571 shows the bakehouse almost opposite Dogge Lane (North Street). The maltmill abuts this tenement to the west. The manorial rights included ownership of the malt mill and the town bakehouse, which had the monopolies of grinding all the malt produced in the town and of baking all household bread. In 1786, after the manors of Daventry and Drayton were sold, Mr William Mumford purchased a messuage in High Street ‘with the ancient horse mill, malt mill, bakehouse and ovens’. At that date, the tenants of Daventry were still obliged to use them.

<1> Ballinger J.; Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Daventry (Medieval/Post Medieval/ Industrial), Section 3.1.2.4 Malt Mill (Digital archive). SNN100501.

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