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Boysack Mills
Bee Bole(S) (18th Century) - (19th Century), Mill (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Site Name Boysack Mills
Classification Bee Bole(S) (18th Century) - (19th Century), Mill (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Corn Mill; Grain Mill
Canmore ID 195682
Site Number NO64NW 118
NGR NO 62564 49103
NGR Description Centred on NO 62564 49103
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/195682
- Council Angus
- Parish Inverkeilor
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO64NW 118.00 Centred on NO 62564 49103
NO64NW 118.01 NO 62431 49146 Bridge
NO64NW 118.02 NO 62678 49104 Mill House
Publication Account (2013)
The small river Lunan flows east from lochs around Forfar to the sea at Lunan Bay and was attractive to the Arbroath manufacturers, in the same way that the Dighty was to Dundee, for bleaching (at Friockheim, demolished) plash mills and small water-powered spinning mills. It also has a number of corn mills along its route. (a) Milldens Mill by a bridge, Aberlemno (datestones 1685 and 1756, rebuilt 1858 waterwheel positioned to drive a threshing machines as well as two pairs of stones, oatmeal until 1930, animal feed thereafter, and not now in use as a mill. (b) Hatton Flax Mill (E of the corn mill of that name), founded in 1807, part rebuilt 1883, steam added 1826, with its own gas-holder, (c) Hattonden (1819, Wm Dear, and a 3HP steam engine from 1824, flax machinery for
sale in 1848, worker’s barracks still identifiable) and (d) Gightyburn (1796-1845, Williamson Bros) Flax Mills were all out of use by 1900 and now are
ruinous. (e ) Boysack Mill: flax spinning in 1860-67, later corn, rebuilt 1958, went out of use but was still complete when recorded in the 1980s, now
in residential use.
M Watson, 2013
Standing Building Recording (27 July 2017)
NO 62488 49145 A historic building survey was undertaken, 27 July 2017, in advance of the conversion of the mill steading to a modern house. The mill steading forms part of a wider complex of buildings consisting of a mill to the SW and the present mill house to the W. A settlement is known to have existed in the late medieval period at Boysack, although the present building probably dates to the early 19th century. The steading has been greatly altered, with large modifications such as the heightening of the building, the insertion of new doorways and the blocking of other openings. Breeze blocking had been used to block some of the main cart openings.
Archive: NRHE (intended)
Funder: Private individual
Diana Sproat – AOC Archaeology Group
(Source: DES, Volume 19)
OASIS ID: aocarcha1-291544
