Old Travel Blog Photograph Mill Bridge Of Allan Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Mill on the Allan Water in Bridge Of Allan near Stirling, Scotland. The Allan Water rises in the Ochil Hills, it runs through Strathallan to Dunblane and Bridge of Allan before joining the River Forth. It is liable to cause floods in lower Bridge of Allan. The river and its tributaries were once extensively used to power mills and factories. The major tributaries, the Muckle Burn and River Knaik, are mainly in hilly sheep farming terrain and no significant industrial use was made of them. At Bridge of Allan there are still in existence three very substantial weirs, the upper of which formerly supplied the Airthrey Mills, while the middle weir was positioned to collect the outfall from the Airthrey Mills as well as the main flow of the river. The lower weir and the middle and lower weirs supplied a changing assortment of mills and factories as recently as the 1950s. The area is now occupied by housing but many traces of the mill lades can still be seen, and the flow of water over the weirs remains impressive.



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