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Elgin, Bridge Street, Bishop Mill
Mill (12th Century)
Site Name Elgin, Bridge Street, Bishop Mill
Classification Mill (12th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Elgin, Bridge Street, Woolen Mill
Canmore ID 16712
Site Number NJ26SW 93
NGR NJ 216 633
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16712
- Council Moray
- Parish Spynie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ26SW 93 216 633
(Location cited as NJ 216 634). Woollen Mill, founded 1875 by William Ramsay. An irregular complex on both sides of a raod. On the west side are two-storey, seven-bay, and a two-storey and attic, 12-bay, blocks, and on each side an irregular group of one- and two-storey buildings, all rubble, with a circular-section brick chimney.
J R Hume 1977.
Publication Account (1982)
The oldest known mill associated with the burgh: the Bishop's Mill, established when William the Lion, by a charter dating between 1189 and 1195, gave the bishop of Moray the right to build a mill on the Lossie below the castle of Elgin (ibid., 178-9). This mill may have moved from its original site, since the River Lossie in this area now runs further north than it originally did.
Information from ‘Historic Elgin: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1982)
