Monument record 9969/1 - Medieval Watermill (Townhill Piece)

{1} An undated charter recorded the grant by John Neel of an old mill (molendinum vet[er]um) in Daventry to lord Walter fitz Robert. Possibly this mill was connected with a tenement granted by a later John Neel to Robert of Daventry in April 1326, and which included fishponds, ponds, ditches, buildings and walls (vivariis, stagnis, fossatis, domibus, muris). John Neel had inherited the tenement from his father and it lay between the tenement of lord Robert and the highway leading to Welton, and extended from the highway sup’ tonhil. .
Townhill Piece is shown to the west of Welton Weye and the north of Rumbellow piece on Brown’s reconstruction of Daventry in 1571. A watermill in this general location would necessarily have had to stand adjacent to North Brook. In 1285 there had been a dispute between the prior and John Neel concerning a mill on the road to Welton.

Ballinger J.; Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Daventry (Medieval/Post Medieval/ Industrial), (unchecked) (Report). SNN106656.

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

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