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The 7 best watermills in Scottish Lowlands

Our curated top 7 watermills in Scottish Lowlands, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 36 watermills see the full watermills index for Scottish Lowlands.

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    Ironmacannie Mill

    Sluice gate and pond - geograph.org.uk - 419205

    Ironmacannie Mill is a historic watermill near Balmaclellan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Built in the 18th and 19th centuries, on the site of an older mill, it retains a substantial amount of o

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    Acorn Bank Garden & Watermill

    Temple Sowerby, Acorn Bank, 1778 water tank used as a planter - geograph.org.uk - 7625193

    Acorn Bank Garden & Watermill is a National Trust property situated just north of Temple Sowerby, near Penrith, Cumbria, England. The garden features over 250 medicinal and culinary herbs and is prote

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    The Howk Bobbin Mill

    The Howk Bobbin Mill, watermills in Scottish Lowlands

    Details PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS: an L-shaped, two-storey mill house with associated buildings and features including a coppice barn, a drying kiln, a privy, offices/stable, retaining walls, tracks and part

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    Brampton Watermill

    Benchmark at NE end of NW parapet of Stock Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 6095067

    Details NY 62 SE, 22/119 LONG MARTON, BRAMPTON, Brampton Watermill 6.10.82 G.V. II Watermill, comprising miller's house and adjoining mill range; C18 with later additions. Rendered rubble. Graduated s

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    Former Watermill At Hether Mill

    Cottages at Dykeside - geograph.org.uk - 2150193

    Details NY 46 NW 93/3/10001 KIRKLINTON HETHERSIDE Former Water-Mill at Hether Mill II Now farm outbuilding, unused at the time of inspection (9/96). Late C18 and early C19, with minor C20 alterations.

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    The Watermill, Attached House, Barn And Stables

    Little Salkeld Watermill - geograph.org.uk - 4335286

    Details NY 53 NE HUNSONBY LITTLE SALKELD 6/77 The Watermill, attached house, barn 11.9.74 and stables (formerly listed as The Corn Mill) II* Water corn mill, miller's house, barn and stables. Mid or l

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    18th century water mill at Grasslees

    Signpost to Darden Lough from the B6341 road to Otterburn - geograph.org.uk - 3645277

    Details This record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not reviewed under the Monuments Protection Programme and are some of our olde

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