Loch Spynie
Windmill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loch Spynie
Classification Windmill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Spynie Canal
Canmore ID 16480
Site Number NJ26NW 29
NGR NJ 23 66
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16480
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ26NW 29 23 66
See also NJ26NW 26.00.
The site of a windmill erected c. 1720 by Archibald Dunbar of Thunderton to act as a water pump. A system of canals and dykes was devised to drain the Loch of Spynie which had been formed behind wind-blown sand at the mouth of the River Lossie and several other local burns. The windmill and its pumping machinery were apparently successful in keeping the waters at bay, but some years after a storm destroyed the mill and its accompanying machinery.
I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1967.
