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Sanday, Scar, Burness

Windmill (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Sanday, Scar, Burness

Classification Windmill (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Westove, Former Windmill

Canmore ID 3540

Site Number HY64SE 46

NGR HY 67370 44939

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Cross And Burness
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

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Publication Account (1996)

This is part of a large farm built for the Traill family of Westove, which includes a lectern dovecote and a later steam-powered meal mill. The conical stone windmill base is all that remains of a number of windmills in Sanday in the 19th century. The entrance was at second-floor level.

The fertile island of Sanday has a number of interesting farm buildings. There was a 'model farm' of the industria lised 19th century at Stove at the south end of the island; the buildings are now ruined but they include an exceptionally large byre for cattle and a red-brick chimney which served a steam-driven mill (HY 608355). At Tresness there is a hexagonal horse-engine house built in the 19th century to power the adjacent threshing-mill (HY 703387), while at Boloquoy may be seen an early 19th-century meal mill with a vertical iron wheel.

Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Orkney’, (1996).

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