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View of Mill with Bridge in background
SC 533214
Description View of Mill with Bridge in background
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 533214
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 997
Scope and Content Bell's Mills, Belford Road, Dean, Edinburgh Bell's Mills, an 18th-century flour mill on the Water of Leith immediately upstream from Belford Bridge, was built on the site of old corn mills, first mentioned in the 16th century, and probably named after the Bell family who operated them. This four-storeyed rubble-walled building, part of the 18th- and early 19th-century mill complex, stood on the wooded banks of the river in the valley beside Belford Bridge. The mill was wrecked in an explosion in 1975, and only the granary now survives. The original bridge on this site was the 18th-century three-arched Bell's Mills Bridge, which carried the old road from Edinburgh to Queensferry. When the Dean Bridge opened in 1832, it provided a new, faster and more efficient route. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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