Blanefield, Station Road, Blanefield Print Works
Textile Print Works (18th Century)
Site Name Blanefield, Station Road, Blanefield Print Works
Classification Textile Print Works (18th Century)
Canmore ID 305596
Site Number NS57NE 113
NGR NS 55177 79615
NGR Description centred
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/305596
- Council Stirling
- Parish Strathblane (Stirling)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
Destruction (1898 - 1918)
Demolished by 1918, as not depicted on Ordnance Survey 3rd edition 25-inch map (Stirlingshire, 1918 sheet XXVII .5). The site was depicted on the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 25-inch map (Stirlingshire 1898, sheet XXVII .5).
Information from RCAHMS (MMD) 4 August 2010.
Note (4 August 2010)
Blanefield Print works is named and depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 25-inch map (Stirlingshire, 1862, sheet XXVII .5) and covered an area of some 19346 square metres (23137 square yards). By 1898 (Ordnance Survey 2rd edition 25-inch map, Stirlingshire 1898, sheet XXVII .5), the buildings depicted at NS55089 796459, NS55096 79681, NS55100 79627, NS55111 79657 and NS55117 679631 have been demolished with some reconfiguration of buildings to the NE of the site. The ranges along Station Road appear to have been rebuilt by 1898. By 1918 (Ordnance Survey 3rd edition 25-inch map, Stirlingshire, 1918, sheet XXVII .5) the site had been cleared and only the buildings known as 'Burnside Row' survive along Station Road. The former print works site is now occupied by housing.
Information from RCAHMS (MMD) 4 August 2010
The print works was set up at Netherton, Blanefield in 1797 in a former tape mill (textile) and was closed in 1898.
Information from A Dryden, 2004, Strathblane Heritage Society webpage http://www.strathblanefield.org.uk/history/printworks.html (retrieved 4 August 2010).
