Site of medieval mills at Newport (EHER 18816)

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The Domesday book records that there were two mills at Newport at the beginning of the medieval period.

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Grid reference	TL 52 33 (point) Generic location for area - exact NGR not known.
Civil Parish	NEWPORT, UTTLESFORD, ESSEX

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The Domesday book records that there were two mills at Newport at the beginning of the medieval period, and the royal accounts record a cost of £2 for restoring the mill in 1158/9. In 1238 the king made a grant of eight oaks from Hatfield Forest to build a mill at Newport. By 1299 there were two watermills (one of which was used as a malt mill in the 1440s) and a windmill, although the latter was in a state of ruin by 1450. <1> <2>

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<1> SEX54008 DESC TEXT: Nurse, B., Pugh, J. and Mollet, I.. 1995. A villlage in time: the history of Newport, Essex.
<2> SEX54010 DESC TEXT: Medlycott, M.. 1999. Newport: Historic Towns Assessment Report.

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