Montgarrie Mill

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The Montgarrie Mill is a watermill in the Scottish village of Montgarrie in the Council Area Aberdeenshire . In 1971 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists, initially in category B. The upgrade to the highest monument category A took place in 1996.

history

The Aberdeen & Alford Milling Company had the mill built in 1882. A few years later it was sold to a Mr. Purdie . After Purdie’s business partner had moved to Australia with his wife and fortune, Purdie sold the mill to Angus Macdonald in 1894 . Macdonald and his descendants operated the mill for over a century until they closed it in 1998. With 25 employees and an output of 1000 tons of oat flakes, the Montgarrie Mill reached its productive peak during the Second World War . Parts of the mill burned down twice in the course of its history, the last time in 1955. In the same decade, the mill canal was also reinforced with concrete. The year it was closed, the mill was bought up and has been producing oatmeal again since then.

description

The Montgarrie Mill stands on the western edge of Montgarrie. The masonry of the partly four-story building, including the kiln , consists of quarry stone . The mill canal is branched off from the Esset Burn above the mill . It leads to an overshot , ten-spoke water wheel with an iron frame and inlaid wooden spokes. The water wheel, manufactured by James Abernethy & Co. from Aberdeen in 1886 , measures 7.2 m in diameter by 1.4 m in width and has a rotation frequency of around six revolutions per minute. The wheel drives five pairs of millstones . Beyond the mill, the Mühlkanal drains into the Don after a short, partly underground run .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ History of Mont Garrie Mill
  3. ↑ Entry on Montgarrie Mill  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 57 ° 14'53.3 "  N , 2 ° 42'23"  W.