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Edinburgh, Bonnington, 71 Newhaven Road, Bonnington Mills

Grain Mill (18th Century) - (19th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Bonnington, 71 Newhaven Road, Bonnington Mills

Classification Grain Mill (18th Century) - (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Bonnington Corn Mills

Canmore ID 147635

Site Number NT27NE 371

NGR NT 25957 76004

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/147635

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Digital Images

View from S showing parts of SSE front of granary block and SSW front of mill block
View from S showing parts of SSE front of granary block and SSW front of mill blockBonnington Mill, interior.
Detail of metal column head and beam.Bonnington Mills.
View from West showing Mill and outbuildings.Bonnington Mill, interior.
View showing metal structure, sheet metal hopper, and millstones.Bonnington Mill, interior.
View of mill wheel in original position, showing wheel hub.John Inglis and Son Oatmeal Mill and other works, Newhaven Road, Bonnington, Edinburgh.  Oblique aerial photograph taken facing west.  This image has been produced from a damaged negative.Bonnington Mill.
View from North West.Bonnington Mill, interior.
Detail of gears and drive shaft.Bonnington Mills.
View from South West of blocked windows on mill, and evidence of demolished outbuilding on West wall of granary.View from SW showing WSW and SSE fronts of granary block with mill block partially obscuredEdinburgh, Bonnington Mill Waterwheel.
Detail of waterwheel, hub and shaft showing split hub and shrink-ring.Bonnington Mill and Granary.
View from North East.Edinburgh, Bonnington Mill Waterwheel.
Detail of waterwheel, hub and shaft showing split hub and shrink-ring.View from NE (possible) showing mill sluiceView from WNW showing Bonnington Mills chimney in middle background with Bonnington Road Lane Mill chimney in left backgroundView from E showing mill lade and sluiceBonnington Mills.
View from West of first and second floor walkways between Mill and Granary.Bonnington Mill, interior.
Detail of gears and drive shaft.Bonnington Mill, interior.
Detail of rim joint of mill wheel.Bonnington Mill, interior.
Detail of mill wheel.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT27NE 371 25957 76004

18th and 19th centuries. An interesting pair of rubble buildings, consisting of a 3-storey, 2-by-5-bay granary, with a pantiled roof, and a 4-storey, 6-bay mill, with a Belfast roof, linked to the granary by 2 gangways. The internal structure of the mill is most unusual, with cast-iron columns and beams supporting wrought-iron joists and iron-plate floors.

J R Hume 1976.

Architecture Notes

Site now demolished.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

1 sheet - notes on noteworthy features.

1 sheet - full description.

10 sheets - map extracts.

4 sheets - site sketches.

1 sheet - notes.

1 letter.

4 sheets - copies of existing information in the RCAHMS (details of survey, listed buildings list, demolishion notices, etc.).

5 colour photographs (prints only), B 26825/PO to B 26829/PO.

13 black and white photographs (prints only - 6x8) B 26795/PO to B 26807/PO.

12 black and white photographs, B 15209b to B 15220.

Envelope containing contact prints of all black and white photographs.

NMRS, MS/500/35/63 (surveyed 29 March 1983).

Architecture Notes

NT27NE 86 25821 75965

All buildings on Bonnington Mills site demolished 1983.

MS/500/35/63:

SURVEY: 29.3.1983.

1 sheet - notes on noteworthy features.

1 sheet - full description.

10 sheets - map extracts.

4 sheets - site sketches.

1 sheet - notes.

1 letter.

4 sheets - copies of existing information in the RCAHMS (details of survey, listed buildings list, demolition notices, etc.).

5 colour photographs (prints only), B 26825/PO to B 26829/PO.

13 black and white photographs (prints only - 6x8) B 26795/PO to B 26807/PO.

12 black and white photographs, B 15209b to B 15220.

Envelope containing contact prints of all black and white photographs.

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