Torphichen Bridge
Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Cottage (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Lade (Period Unassigned), Track (Period Unassigned), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Torphichen Bridge
Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Cottage (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Lade (Period Unassigned), Track (Period Unassigned), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Torphichen Mill, Mill, Lade And Trackway; River Avon
Canmore ID 47968
Site Number NS97SE 60
NGR NS 9565 7369
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47968
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Torphichen
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
NS97SE 60 9565 7369
For Torphichen Bridge (NS 95464 73572), see NS97SE 39.
Torphichen Mill.
W Roy 1746
Ruined cottage where Henry Bell, builder of the prototype steamboat, 'The Comet', was born, 7 April 1767.
W Anderson 1842; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845 (W M Hetherington); OS 6" map 1854-5
(Location cited as NS 9565 7369). Two unroofed buildings annotated Ruins, one of which has an outshot, and one incomplete enclosure are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Linlithgowshire 1856, sheet 5), but they are not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1989).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 26 October 2000
Scheduled as 'Torphichen Bridge, mill, lade & trackway... the remains of a post-medieval mill, lade and trackway.'
(Area defined centred around NS 9568 7363).
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 27 January 2005.