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Millfield Farm

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Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Millfield Farm

Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 219129

Site Number NT63SE 54

NGR NT 65054 33163

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/219129

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  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Mertoun
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
  • Former County Berwickshire

Accessing Scotland's Past Project

Accessing Scotland's Past Project

An early twentieth-century sales brochure gives a detailed account of the buildings which made up Millfield Farm on the Mertoun Estate.

The farmhouse was two storeys high, while the steading consisted of a range of buildings laid out around two open cattle courts. These buildings included a turnip shed, a byre, a straw barn, a granary and stabling for six horses. Farm cottages provided accommodation for two farm workers.

Millfield must also have possessed water-powered facilities, probably for threshing purposes. Map evidence from the late nineteenth century to the present shows both a mill dam, and a system of water channels or lades.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

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