1814
Myrehead Windmill built
Myrehead Windmill was built in 1814 for Andrew Robertson as part of the improved Myrehead Farm steading.
Site overview
Myrehead Windmill was built for Andrew Robertson of Myrehead in 1814. The mill was a freestanding wind-powered structure associated with farm grain processing and the wider improvement of Myrehead Farm. The surviving remains include a ruinous rubble-stone tower.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
Myrehead Windmill was a former tower windmill at Myrehead Farm in Muiravonside, Falkirk. The windmill was built for Andrew Robertson in 1814 as part of a programme of agricultural improvement at Myrehead. Robertson had taken a lease of the farm in the early nineteenth century and invested heavily in drainage, fertilising, liming, crop rotation and new steading buildings.
The windmill was intended to give the farm its own power for grain processing after local thirlage obligations had ended, allowing farmers to process their own grain. The project was ambitious and expensive, and the surviving windmill is remembered as a carefully designed tower structure associated with a modern farm barn. The mill did not prove as efficient as hoped, and no complete machinery inventory, ownership sequence after Robertson, or final working date has been established.
Timeline
2010
Historic building recording report produced
A historic building recording report was produced for Myrehead Windmill in 2010.
Sources and records
Falkirk local history article; Falkirk museum photographic record; Scottish Windmills list; historic building recording report