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Westerdale, East Mill
Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Westerdale, East Mill
Classification Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dale Mill; Westerdale, Grain Mill And Power Station
Canmore ID 8372
Site Number ND15SW 35
NGR ND 1304 5191
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8372
- Council Highland
- Parish Halkirk
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND15SW 35 1304 5190
See also ND15SW 34.
(Location cited as ND 131 519). Small turbine in house, old wheel 3ft 8ins x 12ft, 8-spoke, preserved out of original position.
Visited by Mr J R Hume, 16 May 1974 (photos H74/150/10, 11, 13, 14, 16).
NMRS, MS/749.
(Location cited as ND 131 519). One of two almost identical 1- and 2-storey rubble-built mills of late 18th or early 19th century, the other (West Mill) being at ND 129 519). The eastern mill is partly used as a power station, with a water turbine. Its wheel is 'preserved' at the opposite end of the building, the remains consisting of the skeleton of a wood and iron overshot 8-spoke wheel, 3ft 8ins (1.11m) wide by 12ft (3.66m) diameter.
J R Hume 1977.
East Mill, Westerdale. Roofed mill similar to Mon. 514 (see ND15SW 34), the NW part two-storey, the SE area single-storey, associated with the wheel pit.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
Two cornmills are marked as roofed buildings (at ND 1293 5191 and ND 1304 5190) on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (FO) 21 August 1996.
