Old Photograph Mill Nether Liberton Scotland

Old photograph of a Mill in Nether Liberton located just South of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1143, a charter given to the monks building the newly established Holyrood Abbey granted them the rights over the mills at Libbertun, giving an early record of this activity in the neighbourhood.Then, in 1329, King Robert the Bruce made a grant to the Abbey of the Blackfriars of six merks from the mill of Nether Liberton, giving further evidence of this important trade in the village



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