Monument record 4711/1 - Possible Medieval/Post Medieval Watermill, north-west corner of Courteenhall Park

Documentary evidence suggests this may be the site of a medieval/post-medieval watermill.

{5}Site of Watermill (?) (SP 753534), in the N.W. corner of Courteenhall Park, in the bottom of a N.-draining valley at 90 m. above OD. The area is occupied by a small wood now called Windmill Spinney but on earlier maps called Old Mill Spinney (NRO, maps of Courteenhall, 1794 {1} and 1839 {2}). Within the spinney are three small rectangular ponds with a larger roughly E.-shaped one further upstream. To the S.W., in a side valley, is another sub-rectangular pond bounded on the W. by a low stone-rubble dam. They are shown exactly as now on the 1839 map. None of the surviving ponds appears to be the site of a watermill, but they may have been altered as part of the landscaping of the park in the 18th century.

<1> 1794, Map of Courteenhall, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19004.

<2> 1839, Courteenhall Tithe Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN20308.

<3> 1958, OS 6 INCH MAP, (unchecked) (Map). SNN20309.

<4> 1932, Fieldnames Overlays (general-needs sorting out into OS quarter sheets), (unchecked) (Map). SNN10076.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.38 site 4 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

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