Langhaugh Mill
Mill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Langhaugh Mill
Classification Mill (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 320650
Site Number NT43NE 219
NGR NT 49760 35830
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/320650
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Galashiels
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Selkirkshire
Project (April 2009 - February 2015)
The Borders Railway Project proposals are to reinstate the Newcraighall to Tweedbank section of the former Waverley Line. The reinstated railway line will be approximately 48km long and the majority of the route will use the existing railway embankment.
Several field surveys, archaeological evaluations and standing building surveys were undertaken by CFA Archaeology from April 2009 until February 2015.
CFA Archaeology
Standing Building Recording (9 October 2012 - 5 November 2012)
Three individual archaeological standing building recording surveys were carried out by CFA Archaeology Ltd (CFA) between October and November 2011. The work was undertaken in advance of the construction of the
Borders Railway Project. The work was requested by the Scottish Borders Council Archaeologist and is detailed in the Cultural Heritage Management Plan (Jones & Neighbour 2010) for the development. Site numbers relate to study specific numbers from the Environmental Statement.
The three sites that were subjected to a standing building survey were:
Langhaugh Mill Complex, Galashiels, (Site 417) (NGR NT 49763583)
Station House, Stow, (Site 204) (NGR NT 45644454)
Torwoodlee Gate Piers, (Site 509) (NGR NT47723858)
Information from Oasis (cfaarcha1-119211) 20 August 2012
Standing Building Recording (9 October 2012 - 5 November 2012)
NT 4976 3583 Langhaugh Mill is located in an industrial estate and is predominantly a late 19th-century complex, consisting of stone built weaving sheds with multiple pitched roofs supported on cast-iron columns. The exteriors are largely unmodified, whilst the interiors were greatly altered during the 20th century. A late 20th-century steel-framed weaving shed and plant room were also surveyed. Associated with the weaving sheds is a detached two-storey house with attic which probably housed the mill manager. The interior had been converted into offices for a local builder.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Report: Scottish Borders HER and RCAHMS
Funder: ERM Ltd on behalf of Transport Scotland
Stuart Mitchell, Graeme Carruthers, Mike Cressey, CFA Archaeology Ltd, 2013
(Source: DES)
Sbc Note
Former site of Langhaugh Woolen Mill. The mill began in 1875 under Currie, Macdougall & Scott and included a 4-storey spinning mill with a shed and double windows. This burned down in 1911. The site continued woolen manufactuing into the 1980s before being bought by Castle Warehouse and Bernco Electrical. The surviving mill buildings were demolised in 2012 ahead of construction for the Borders Railway.
Source: Galashiels Burgh Survey
