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Springfield, Russell Mills
Flax Mill (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Springfield, Russell Mills
Classification Flax Mill (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Russel Mill; River Eden; Russell Mill Bridge And Dam
Canmore ID 96607
Site Number NO31SE 131
NGR NO 35296 11967
NGR Description Centred NO 35296 11967
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/96607
- Council Fife
- Parish Cupar
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO31SE 131.00 centred 35296 11967
NO31SE 131.01 NO 35133 11908 Weir (River Eden)
Location formerly cited as NO 3536 1198.
(Location cited as NO 353 119). Russel Mill, mid 19th century. Range of 4 bays of single-storey, north-light sheds, with a 2-storey rubble office block, a tall single-storey engine house with a pyramidal roof and round-headed windows, and an octagonal red-and-white-brick chimney on a square stone base.
J R Hume 1976.
Publication Account (2013)
RUSSELL MILL AND STATION, SPRINGFIELD
SW of Cupar, stay on public roads
The largest spinning mill in North East Fife. Founded c.1818 by George Moon, pioneer flax spinner, and operated, from 1860 by Smith, Laing
and Co, flax and jute spinning. It closed in 1935. The earlier 4–storey mill has been demolished, along recently with the chimney and workmen’s
cottages by the entrance, leaving a single-storey north-lit spinning mill of the Dundee type that is now used to make concrete blocks. Water and
steam power was employed in combination, and the sluices remain for the turbine that replaced the wheel in 1890. Beside the small railway station,
1847, Jacobean-style, now a house, are the arches of six coal drops.
M Watson, 2013
