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Historic New Abbey corn mill seeks lorry protection measures

The whitewashed stone mill by the Pow Burn in New Abbey was built at the end of the 1700s.

But a mill may have been there as early as the late 1200s when Sweetheart Abbey was founded in the village.

Originally two storeys high with two millstones, the mill grew in the 1800s as an extra floor and millstone were added.

Despite its name, the site was used mainly to mill oats – both for human consumption and for animal feed

Thomas Millar was the first recorded miller, in 1825. The last miller, John Clingan, closed his ledgers and stopped the waterwheel soon after World War Two.

The building is now run as a visitor attraction.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland


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