Glasgow, Linn Park
Lime Kiln(S) (19th Century), Mill(S) (16th Century) - (18th Century), Saw Mill (19th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, Linn Park
Classification Lime Kiln(S) (19th Century), Mill(S) (16th Century) - (18th Century), Saw Mill (19th Century)
Canmore ID 273566
Site Number NS55NE 245
NGR NS 5817 5928
NGR Description Centred NS 58 59
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/273566
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Cathcart (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS55NE 245 5817 5928
Mill sites on either side of Linn waterfall.
NS 5817 5928 S side (Linn Farm, Hagtonhill). Rubble dam in 2.1m wide slot over full height of whin sill of falls, against N bank of White Cart. Sluice gate in dam, 1m square, below concrete lintel 0.6m wide by 0.9m high. Immediately to N of dam, overflow channel cut into crest of falls, 0.9m wide by 0.5m deep with recesses for sluice.
Site of Linn waulk mill. Two early Linn waulkers' graves in Cathcart Kirkyard (dated 1725, 1734), both with waulk millers' shears carved on rear.
NS 5816 5933 N side (Waulkersland). Low weir, c 0.5m high by 15m long, on northern crest of falls, built of sandstone blocks tied to whin sill of falls with iron bands. Curved inlet to lade enters 2.5m high rubble bank 4m upstream of weir. Stub of vertical iron shaft of sluice protrudes from concrete lintel over lade entry. Lade narrows to 0.6m wide within site (becomes buried).
Rubble-built mill plateau, 1.8m above river level, extends 14m NE to crest of falls then turns NW parallel to falls. Continues partly as rubble-faced wall, and partly bedrock, for 15m along northern extension of falls, to where lade exits from tailrace at base of bank in tunnel opening. Tailrace, 0.9m wide by 0.7m high, lined in dressed ashlar with rough sandstone lintels. Tunnel extends 7m into bank, then splays out to 1.5m wide with vaulted ashlar roof. Terminates at wheel pit where iron water wheel with curved buckets survives in situ.
Site of waulk mill (pre-17th century) and saw mill (from 1850s).
NS 5814 5937 In W slope of former lime quarry directly N of Linn waterfall, two clamp kilns, 5 x 5m, separated by bank 2m wide by 1.5m high. Quarry to let in Glasgow Advertiser, 10 June 1813.
S Nisbet 2004
