New Lanark, Mill Number Four

Mill (18th Century)

Site Name New Lanark, Mill Number Four

Classification Mill (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Mill No. 4; River Clyde; Clyde Water; New Lanark Mills; New Lanark Industrial Village

Canmore ID 122776

Site Number NS84SE 58.04

NGR NS 88068 42475

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/122776

Digital Images

SC 754874

Elevated view from NW of NW end of School, with River Clyde and Dye Works and Engineers' Workshop buildings in the background, and the SW side of the Institute partially visible (left), with the lade in the foreground

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12/6/2002

SC 2530054

General view of the foundations and water-wheel pit of Mill No.4, which was destroyed by a fire in 1883. The Institute can be seen to the left, and part of the School to the right

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

12/6/2002

SC 2530055

Detailed view from W of water-wheel pit, which now contains a water wheel acquired from Hole Mill Farm in Fife, from where it was removed and widened in the 1990s

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

12/6/2002

SC 754863

General view from S of SW side of the Institute

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13/6/2002

SC 754873

New Lanark: detailed view from W of water-wheel pit, which now contains a water wheel acquired from Hole Mill Farm in Fife, from where it was removed and widened in the 1990s

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12/6/2002

SC 1257368

New Lanark, general view, showing Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd. Mills and New Lanark Road. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.

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Records of Aerofilms Ltd, aerial photographers, Bristol, England

18/9/1932

SC 1579737

Map of New Lanark, from New Lanark RCAHMS Broadsheet 15. 400dpi copy of GV004120.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

2006

SC 754871

General view of the foundations and water-wheel pit of Mill No.4, which was destroyed by a fire in 1883. The Institute can be seen to the left, and part of the School to the right

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12/6/2002

SC 754878

View from NW showing the SW side of the School, and the foundations of Mill No.4 (foreground left)

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12/6/2002

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Administrative Areas

Council South Lanarkshire
Parish Lanark
Former Region Strathclyde
Former District Clydesdale
Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS84SE 58.04 88068 42475

Scheduled as 'New Lanark, Mill Number Four... the foundations of a cotton spinning mill consdtructed in 1791-3, the remains of the largest of four mills built by David Dale as part of the original cotton spinning complex at New Lanark. It lies on the N bank of the River Clyde, within the New Lanark industrial village...'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 December 2009.

Architecture Notes

'Mill No. 4' is depicted on OS 1st Edition map (Lanarkshire, sheet XXXII, Surveyed 1858, Published 1864). It has since been destroyed by fire in 1883.

Information from RCAHMS (KD), October 2001.

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