Archaeology Notes

Event ID 747373

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56SE 147.00 58543 60119

NS56SE 147.01 58533 60117 23 Snuff Mill Road

NS56SE 147.02 58543 60127 27 Snuff Mill Road

For (adjacent to NW) Old Bridge, see NS56SE 39.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Glasgow, Cathcart Snuff Mill.

Photographs: Mitchell Library. William Graham Vol. I p.13.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Cathcart Snuff and Cardboard Mill, Snuffmill Road, built in the 18th century as Cathcart Meal Mill and altered to a cardboard mill in 1812 for Solomon Lindsay of Penicuik; snuff milling was added in 1814. A block of low single storey buildings, now partly ruined.

J R Hume 1974.

This watermill is situated on the E bank of the White Cart Water to the SE of the bridge NS56SE 39 and within the area of suburban Glasgow. The available map evidence indicates no associated weir.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 February 2006.