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Kemback, Former Sawmill
Saw Mill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kemback, Former Sawmill
Classification Saw Mill (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 333465
Site Number NO41NW 100
NGR NO 41589 15282
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/333465
- Council Fife
- Parish Kemback
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
Note (November 2013)
Depicted and named 'Kemback Mill (Sawing) on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6-inch map (Fife, (published) 1856, sheet 11), a mill lade clearly shown on the rught hand side of the Ceres Burn. However, the Ordnance Survey 3rd edition 6-inch map (Fife and Kinross, (published) 1920, sheet VIII.SW) shows that the sawmill has relocated to NO41522 15268 and was presumably electrically driven.
Information from RCAHMS (MMD) 20 November 2013.
Publication Account (2013)
DURA DEN
centred on NO 5150 1450, Ceres Burn
Picturesque little Ceres Burn drove Blebo mills (two flax spinning mills, one from 1803, and a barley mill),Yoolfield and Pitscottie flax mills, Kemback saw and Dairsie corn mill. Blebo Spinning Co and W W Yool & Co were still spinning flax in 1937, the last to do so in Fife, but now are silent and either fragmentary or converted into houses.
M Watson, 2013
