Desk Based Assessment

Date November 1999

Event ID 825108

Category Recording

Type Desk Based Assessment

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A desk-based study and field survey of Dalquhurn Bleachfields, Dying and Printing Works was carried out in November 1999 in advance of proposed development.

The bleachfields at Dalquhurn were established in 1715 and expanded to become one of the largest and most profitable industrial ventures in the Vale of Leven textile industry.

The site was largely demolished in the early 1990s and now less than 10 of the 40 or so buildings that stood on the site during its later 19th-century hey-day survive. The site has been colonised by trees and dense undergrowth in parts and piles of demolition rubble are located all over.

The site of the tomb of George Scott who was buried at Dalquhurn in 1767 on his request was desecrated in 1989 and 1991 and there is now no trace of it on the ground. His gravestone is currently broken into three pieces and under the cemetery tip at Alexandria Cemetery.

Forty sites were recorded in the field and a clear history of the site revealed by the desk study.

A full report has been deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: CRGP.

F Baker 2000