1750–1825
Windmill built at Bolshan
Bolshan, Windmill was built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.
Site overview
Bolshan, Windmill stands at a former farmstead near Kinnell in Angus. The windmill is of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century date and survives as a short tapering rubble tower. It was probably connected with threshing rather than ordinary independent grain milling.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Bolshan, Windmill is a former windmill at Bolshan in the parish of Kinnell, Angus. The surviving structure is a short tapering rubble tower, set within a farmstead context. The windmill is of late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century date and probably powered a threshing machine.
Later changes to the farmstead brought buildings together into a larger steading complex, while much of the older farmhouse became roofless. No detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, or final operating date has been established from the sources checked.
Timeline
1974
Windmill photographed
The former windmill tower at Bolshan was photographed as part of later industrial archaeology recording.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Regional Historic Environment Record; Scottish Windmills: A Survey; Hume industrial archaeology reference