Site overview

Cammo Water Tower stands within the former Cammo estate west of Edinburgh. Historic Environment Scotland records the structure as an early nineteenth-century circular and castellated water tower, formerly Cammo windmill, situated on low-lying ground within the designed landscape.

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History

Cammo Water Tower is a former wind-powered estate water tower at Cammo, west of Edinburgh. Historic Environment Scotland records the structure within the Cammo designed landscape and describes it as an early nineteenth-century circular and castellated water tower, formerly Cammo windmill. The tower formed part of the estate infrastructure associated with Cammo House, where wind power was used to pump or supply water.

The surrounding Cammo landscape was added to the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes on 31 March 2001. No detailed machinery description, construction contract, or final working date for the wind-powered apparatus has been established from the sources checked.

Timeline

1800–1830

Early nineteenth-century water tower built

Cammo Water Tower was built as an early nineteenth-century circular and castellated structure and is recorded as formerly Cammo windmill.
2001

Cammo designed landscape added to Inventory

The Cammo designed landscape, including the former Cammo windmill water tower, was added to the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes on 31 March 2001.

Sources and records

Historic Environment Scotland garden and designed landscape record; Trove designation record; local history article