Publication Account

Date 2000

Event ID 1018321

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018321

The presence of the canal also now endowed local industry with a new water supply. St Magdalene's Distillery figure 21, for example, an imposing group of buildings still standing on the site of the old cattle market, was in an ideal position to draw its cooling water (although not that used in the whisky itself) from the canal. The distillery was built on the site of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, first mentioned in 1335. According to a charter of 1528, this was a hospital for the poor, with a chapel and cemetery, but it may even have been a leper hospital. The site is now occupied by one of the warehouses of the distillery; it is unlikely to have survived the impact of such a building.

Information from ‘Historic Linlithgow: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (2000).