Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 562477
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562477
Nether Mill stands on the east bank of the Eden Water, about 100m south of Nethermill Bridge. The mill is depicted on maps as far back as the late eighteenth century, though it had fallen out of use by the time the second edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map was surveyed in 1898.
The first edition Ordnance Survey map in 1862 depicts Nether Mill as an L-shaped building, and clearly shows the course of the mill lade, with its associated sluice for regulating the flow of water. Today, little remains of the mill buildings, whose buildings are now reduced to overgrown ruins.
For a rural parish such as Gordon, grain was an important export. In 1793, the parish had three corn mills from which flour was taken by cart to markets in Edinburgh and throughout East Lothian.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
