Greenhaugh And Tarset : Later Mills
(Information supplied by the North East Mills Group)
Site Name : Gatehouse Mill
- Grid Reference: NY787888
- First recorded
- Last recorded pre 1860
Little is known about this mill on the Tarset Burn. By the 1860s Ordnance Survey the mill is shown as in ruins, the 1890s edition still names the mill but in subsequent editions it had gone.
Site Name : Burnmouth Mill
- Grid Reference: NY794881
- First recorded
- Last recorded pre 1860
The 1860s Ordnance Survey shows this mill to be in ruins and later editions no longer mark the site. Some evidence remains on the ground.
Site Name : Boughthill Mill
- Grid Reference: NY793867
- First recorded
- Last recorded
Like Gatehouse and Burnmouth mills little is known about this site. The name is given on early Ordnance Survey maps and the location certainly allows for there having been a mill there. It is possible to see what might have been the mill race on the ground but there is little obvious evidence in the remaining buildings.
Site Name : Dally Castle Mill
- Grid Reference: NY776845
- First recorded C18th
- Last recorded 1855
It is thought that this mill is a ‘Napoleonic Mill’ constructed to help supply the nation with flour during the conflicts with France. In 1803 Michael Scott was the miller and also the leader of the Presbyterian Secessionists at Bellingham (Griffith 1974). The mill is shown on Fryer’s County map (fig. 30) of 1820 and millers are listed in 1827 (Parson & White) & 1855 directories. By the 1860s Ordnance Survey an ‘Old Mill race’ is shown. May be on the site of the mill of Chirden manor recorded in IPM for Robert Swinburne in 1326 (NCH XV (1940) 277; Cal IPM VI, no. 693) and in the Iter of Wark in 1279 (Hartshorne 1858, lxvi), since it lies beside the manorial centre (caput), Dally Castle.
