Old Travel Blog Photograph Mill Balmuir Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of houses and Mill in Balmuir on the outskirts of the city of Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. Balmuir is located to the north of the Dighty Water 1½ miles East South East of Bridgefoot. The Dighty, or Dichty, Water rises as the Lundie Burn in the Sidlaw Hills to the north west of Dundee. It flows southeastwards to enter the Tay estuary between Broughty Ferry and Monifieth, having completed a course of 12½ miles. The Dighty provided power for industry from at least the 16th Century when grain mills are recorded here. In the 17th Century mills were involved in the waulking of woollen cloth, and bleachfields were also established at this time, some of which persisted until the 20th century. There may have been 56 mills on the river at one point in the 18th century.



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