Monument record 8792/1 - Site of Whitemills

This may have been one of the three mills recorded for Earls Barton at Domesday. Known as Hullock Mill in the post-medieval period. Demolished in the early 20th century.

{1} 1086 May have one of the three mills recorded for Bartone (Earls Barton)
1597 References to Hullock fulling mill when a boy lept into the water above it and was carried under the waterwheel but came out alive although greatly bruised
1712 Known as Hullock Mill
1760 Advertisement of materials for sale at Lynn-Regis, Norfolk included 'A miller that wants work, may hear of employment at White-Mills near Northampton'.
1851 Census return for Castle Ashby included Agnes Pain, miller and innkeeper at White Mills
1857 Joseph Harrold, master miller at White Mills.
1881 Peter Bradshaw, previously miller at Barton mill was miller and farer here.
1883 Peter Bradshaw, aged 77 years, advertising for 'a miller of all work'. This is the last reference to the mill.

John Harris's 1712 map marks it Hullock Mill, 1772 Enclosure award names it White Mills, as does Bryant's 1827 map and the 1841 tithe map.

The mill-race and bypass channel make an island of the mill site. The area of this sees to have been diminished as a result of flood prevention works. The road is carried past the tail pond, of a considerable size, on a causeway supported by a stone wall on its east side. Water still flows through the arches that once took the water from the tail-race and bypass channel. Despite the work on flood prevention, there is the possibility that some evidence of this mill may remain underground.

<1> STARMER G., 2002?, Northamptonshire Watermills Survey 2001 - 2002 (A-H), p. 20 & photos (Report). SNN105520.

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Feb 20 2025 4:09PM