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Scottish water mills website. Single map Split-screen map About Project Download Help / Contact. × Links from this ... Cowden Mill, Water Management System, Endrick Water, Ballikinrain: Killearn: Stirling: Cowgate Calender Works: Dundee: Angus: Crackaig, Crackaig Farm Mill: Loth: Sutherland: Crackaig:
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Mills have been a feature of the Scottish landscape for...
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Mills have been a feature of the Scottish landscape for centuries. The number of operational mills was still in the thousands in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill owners had a range of power sources available, each with benefits and disadvantages.
The Scottish Water Mills Website provides a web-based resource displaying mill locations across Scotland. On these Project pages you will find a brief history of the Scottish Water Mills Project, a description of how the data were collected and processed, and how the web viewer itself was created.
Many are used as private residences, or have been converted into offices or flats. A number have been preserved or restored as museums where the public can see the mill in operation. This is a list of some of the surviving watermills and tide mills in the United Kingdom. Wears the hours away.
Click Mill at Dounby, Orkney is a charming, well-preserved example of an 1800s water mill. Visit the stunning site today or contact Historic Environment Scotland for more information.
The Huxter Water Mills are among the very best examples of this traditional building type on Mainland Shetland. The level of survival of the buildings, mill machinery, mill races and dam help us understand about the construction and use of horizontal water mills by earlier crofting communities in Shetland, as well as Shetland building traditions.
One of Scotland’s surviving water-powered mills is to mark more than two centuries’ worth of industrial milling heritage as part of the annual National Mills Weekend celebration. This weekend – Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th May – Stanley Mills, on the River Tay in Perth will be revisiting its past. Through a series of special events and ...
