Tormiston Mill View from NW showing NW front of lade
SC 459528
Description Tormiston Mill View from NW showing NW front of lade
Date 30/4/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 459528
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Tormiston Mill, Stenness, Orkney This is a large three-storey, water-powered corn mill, rubble-built, on a rectangular plan, with two pairs of stones driven by an overshot wheel 1.22 by 4.27m, with the lade carried on a flagstone-built aqueduct. This view shows the aqueduct carrying the lade to the overshot waterwheel, which is on the right, on the gable of the mill. This is an unusually substantial structure for the purpose. Many of the Orkney and Caithness mills, like Tormiston, were rebuilt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since 1976 the mill has been acquired by Historic Scotland, and it is now operated as a visitor centre for Maes Howe chambered cairn. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/28/1
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