Watermill

A mill in Newton in Glendale is mentioned in early 13th century when Walter Corbet gave a rent of 12d. per annum from the mill to the monks of Farne (NCH XI (1922), 143, citing Raine 1852, App no.dccxiv, 125).

However, later on, in the Laing Charters of the early 14th century, Lanton mill, located on the north bank of the Glen opposite Kirknewton, figures much more prominently. The mill was owned by the Corbett family in the 13th century and rented by Robert Mitford for 20 Marks.

In the 14th century, a tenant of the manor, David Baxter, was served various writs for not meeting his obligations towards the mill, namely he was to have his corn ground there and to take his share in repairing the mill and carting stones to it (NCH XI (1922, 144-5). It is possible that the Corbets, who also held the adjacent manor of Lanton, and seem to have managed their Kirknewton holdings as a subsidiary of that manor had already centralised all their corn-milling operations at Lanton, before they relinquished their holdings to the Strothers.