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A place of
special interest to visit if you are in Scotland.
We spent a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon here.
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On our
recent holiday Lynne and I paid a visit to Barry
Watermill which is owned by National Trust for
Scotland. You can find this mill about 15 miles
north of Dundee. There has been a mill on this site
since 1539, but most of the present buildings date
from 1814 when the mill was rebuilt after a fire.
It was used for cereal grinding until 1982. It was
purchased by the National Trust of Scotland in 1988
and reopened to the public in 1992.
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The mill has
a round building to one side which is a drying kiln
for the cereals before they are ground. This was
the first time Lynne and I had seen such a
building: we know that in the Lake District they
have drying floors within the mill building.
It is driven
by an overshot water wheel which takes its water
from the hand-built lade from the local stream
before returning back to the stream once it has been
used.
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Stone Nut
Two sets of
stones are still in place and the mill is still able
to grind cereals.
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Stones Floor |
I have also
included this shot of a windmill which can be seen
across the fields when you travel on the Bo’ness and
Kinneil railway, near Grangemouth. It is a disused
stone tower.
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