1750–1799
Late eighteenth-century pumping mill built
Savoch Tower Pumping Mill was built as a wind-powered pumping mill in the late eighteenth century.
Site overview
Savoch Tower Pumping Mill stood near Savoch and Strathbeg in the parish of Lonmay. The site was a wind-powered pumping mill rather than a conventional corn mill. The surviving remains are associated with the former windmill stump, with the wider site name also appearing as Strathbeg Mill.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Savoch Tower Pumping Mill was a former wind-powered pumping mill at Savoch, near Strathbeg and Lonmay in Aberdeenshire. The site was also known as Strathbeg and Savoch, Windmill Stump. It was a tower-type windmill of late eighteenth-century date and appears to have been associated with drainage or pumping rather than ordinary grain milling.
The windmill was still represented on nineteenth-century mapping, but the surviving structure is a stump rather than a complete working mill. No detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, construction account, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1870
Windmill shown on nineteenth-century mapping
Savoch or Strathbeg Mill was shown on nineteenth-century mapping as a windmill site.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Windmill World site entry; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory