The Glen, North Berwick, Old Mills
Mill(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name The Glen, North Berwick, Old Mills
Classification Mill(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mills Of Kintreath
Canmore ID 56729
Site Number NT58SE 6
NGR NT 5627 8493
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/56729
- Council East Lothian
- Parish North Berwick
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT58SE 6 5627 8493
(NT 5631 8480) Old Mill (NAT)
(NT 5627 8493 and NT 5628 8497) Old Mills (NAT)
OS 6" map (1968)
In The Glen are three small ruinous buildings. These are the Mills of Kintreath, which were built in the Middle Ages and belonged to North Berwick Priory (NT58SW 3).
W M Ferrier 1980
A mill lade, or mill-burn entering the sea at North Berwick between the lands of the burgesses of North Berwick and the lands of Tantallon, and a reference to more than one mill associated with them, figures in a boundary dispute between the burgesses and the nuns of North Berwick recorded in a charter dated 1434.
J Anderson 1899
The three mills, the mill croft and aqueduct of North Berwick are mentioned in writs of 1577 and 1605.
C C Harvey 1916
The remains of these three water-mills stand from 1.0 to 5.0m high and are well-preserved. No dating evidence was seen, though the style of construction suggests 18th or early 19th century work.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (DT) 29 August 1962
Dr J S Richardson ascribes these mills to the 17th century, and adds the site of a fourth mill - a waulk mill, built in 1737, at NT 5625 8503.
Visited by OS (JLD) 10 September 1962
Location estimated on site of Mill Burn.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Scottish Record Office
Bond and estimate for repair of Walkmiln and Gillhouse
1739 GD110/764
Note (27 September 2000)
Three unroofed buildings (NT 5628 8498, NT 5627 8493 and NT 5631 8480), each annotated Mill (Ruins of), are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Haddingtonshire 1854, sheet 2). The two mills to the N are shown roofed and the mill to the S as unroofed on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1992).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27 September 2000