Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713466

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT33NE 24.00 centred 3595 3705

Tweedvale Mills

(Woollen) [NAT] (at NT 3596 3708)

OS 1:2500 map, 1966.

NT33NE 24.01 NT 35944 37094 Main or west block

NT33NE 24.02 NT 36108 37033 East block

NT33NE 24.03 NT 35914 37121 Museum and shop

NT33NE 24.04 NT 3497 3701 to NT 3655 3710 Lade

NT33NE 24.05 NT 35115 36998 Weir (River Tweed)

For associated Kirnie Law Reservoir (NT 34841 38691) and Walkerburn pumped storage hydro-electric installation, see NT33NW 58.00.

(Location cited as NT 360 371). Ballantyne's Mill, founded 1855. A large complex of buildings, the oldest of which appears to be a four-storey, 8-bay block with a castellated clock tower. The rest are mainly two storeys in height. There is a fine octagonal brick chimney with a flared top.

J R Hume 1976.

Tweedvale Mills [NAT] (at NT 3607 3704)

OS 1:2500 map, 1983.

Henry Ballantyne of Galashiels founded the Tweedvale Mill in 1855 for the production of wollen cloth. Tweedholm Mill, established by Robert Frier, also of Galashiels, established Tweedholm Mill in 1859, together with housing for the mill workers. The mills combined (as Tweddvale Mills) in 1918.

K Cruft, J Dunbar and R Fawcett 2006.