Tour Scotland 4K sunny Winter travel video of the historic windmill by the coastal walking path on ancestry visit to St Monans by the Firth of Forth on the coast of the East Neuk Of Fife. The Salt Mill here at St Monans was used to pump sea water into salt pans. The Newark Coal and Salt Company's St Philips saltworks were constructed on the St Monans shore in 1772 and remained operational into the 1820s. This was at a time when demand and prices for salt were high, with salt required in large quantities for an expanding sea fishery and for export. The Scottish salt industry fell into severe decline with the abolition in 1823 of the duty on imported salt. The saltworks depended for fuel on adjacent coal workings; and salt was shipped mostly for sale up and down the east coast of Scotland from the harbour at Pittenweem. The Newark Coal and Salt Work Company was a partnership venture between Sir John Anstruther and his brother in law Robert Fall, a grain merchant in Dunbar, a town with which the East Neuk burghs had long and close links. The windmill is of national importance as a particularly well preserved and relatively unaltered complex of saltworks developed during the important period of industrialisation.
The Fife Coastal Walking Path which passes through St Monans, it is a Scottish long distance walking footpath that runs from Kincardine to Newburgh. It runs for 117 miles along the coastline of Fife and passes through many seaside towns and villages including Anstruther, Cellardyke, Crail, Elie, Lower Largo and Pittenweem. The path would take around one week to walk completely from end to end. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March. Although I now live in Perthshire, I was raised in the East Neuk of Fife
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.
No comments:
Post a Comment