Duntocher Mill
Cotton Mill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Duntocher Mill
Classification Cotton Mill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Duntocher Cotton Mill
Canmore ID 90108
Site Number NS47SE 76
NGR NS 4884 7252
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/90108
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Old Kilpatrick (Clydebank)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydebank
- Former County Dunbartonshire
Duntocher Cotton Mill: ruined remains of an early 19th century 3 storey by 7 window [bay] grey stone mill. The building had been cut down to ground floor level by spring 1967.
Visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 22 May 1965; spring 1967
Information from MS/749 (Dunbartonshire, Old Kilpatrick/Duntocher parishes, Duntocher Cotton Mill), photographic print attached, negative with reporter (JR Hume).
Note
Duntocher Cotton Mill is depicted and named 'Cotton Mill' on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey, 25-inch plan (Dumbarton, 1865, sheet XXIII.13) surveyd in 1861. The southern range straddles the Duntocher Burn with a sluide and small lade on its north bank feeding into the buildings to supply the water wheel or wheels.
This mill, orginally a woollen mill, was converted to spin cotton. It is noted that Robert Dunmore who owned Ballindalloch State in Stirlingshire and a textile printing business in Glasgow was, by 1780, a partner in a printfield in south Glasgow (at Pollockshaws) and in cotton mills in Spinningdale (Sutherland) as well as at Duntocher. By 1839 Duntocher was using water power in conjunction with steam power.
Ordnance Survey (1865); J Shaw (1984)
Information from HES, Survey and Recording Section (MMD), 3 August 2016.
