Monument record 9968/1 - Oldmill Piece (Cuttell Miln)

{1} A field marked ‘Old Mill Piece’ on Brown’s reconstruction of Daventry in 1571 suggests that the Cuttle Mill was formerly located to the Northeast of the confluence of the North and South Brooks.
In 1275 three pieces of land, one of them lying between the mill and the fields of William West and Richard ad Fontem, were exchanged for a plot behind the millpond of Cuttele in Tunslade. A grant of the late 12th century involved half an acre of meadow inter duo molendina et alia subter Cutele.
The survey of the former priory made in 1526 recorded a meadow close called the ‘yng medowe’ which evidently lay north of the road from Daventry to Northampton abutting the king’s meadow on the east and part of the common field and part of the ‘miln close’ on the north. The survey next described the close called the ‘miln medow’ which contained two acres, adjoining which was the ‘miln holme’ of half an acre. They abutted the king’s meadow on the east and south, the Ing meadow on the west, and the mill dam on the north. In the ‘milne holme’ was a house then in decay but which ‘of late’ had been a water mill called Cuttell Miln.

<1> Ballinger J.; Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Daventry (Medieval/Post Medieval/ Industrial), Section 3.1.2.3 Watermill (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100501.

<2> BROWN A.E., 1991, Early Daventry (An Essay In Early Landscape Planning), (unchecked) (Book). SNN57948.

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Oct 6 2011 9:29AM