Note

Event ID 1012886

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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Duntocher Cotton Mill is depicted and named 'Cotton Mill' on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey, 25-inch plan (Dumbarton, 1865, sheet XXIII.13) surveyd in 1861. The southern range straddles the Duntocher Burn with a sluide and small lade on its north bank feeding into the buildings to supply the water wheel or wheels.

This mill, orginally a woollen mill, was converted to spin cotton. It is noted that Robert Dunmore who owned Ballindalloch State in Stirlingshire and a textile printing business in Glasgow was, by 1780, a partner in a printfield in south Glasgow (at Pollockshaws) and in cotton mills in Spinningdale (Sutherland) as well as at Duntocher. By 1839 Duntocher was using water power in conjunction with steam power.

Ordnance Survey (1865); J Shaw (1984)

Information from HES, Survey and Recording Section (MMD), 3 August 2016.