Monument record 9968/3 - Possible Watermill

{1} However, ‘Furlong butting east to the Mill Dam’ is shown much further to the north. This could relate to a second mill, mentioned in a 14th century document. In c.1300 Walter fitz Robert quitclaimed to the priory a field above ‘Borw’ (?) on the west side of the Dodford Road (the road to Northampton) as far as his field ‘Cowhus’, together with the watermill in the said field. Although the topographical references are confusing, this could be the mill shown to the west of the brook, close to the parish boundary, on Brown’s reconstruction of Daventry in 1571.

<1> Ballinger J.; Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Daventry (Medieval/Post Medieval/ Industrial), Section 3.1.2.5 Windmill (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100501.

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

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Mar 18 2010 9:30AM