Cockle Mill View from West
ED 15243
Description Cockle Mill View from West
Date 1975 to 1976
Collection List C Survey
Catalogue Number ED 15243
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 537390, SC 1645911
Scope and Content Cockle Mill, Cramond, Edinburgh Cockle Mill, mentioned as a grain mill in 1690, was one of four working iron mills on the River Almond between Cramond and Old Cramond Bridge in the 18th century. The decline of the iron industry forced the mill to close in the late 19th century. This early 19th-century group of mill buildings, including the old mill offices, has been restored and converted into private housing. The original mill, which had disappeared by the turn of the 20th century, stood on the site of the lawn opposite. The name 'Cockle Mill' may have come from the mill's former practice of washing and crushing cockle shells from Cramond Island to produce poultry grit and farm fertiliser. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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