The Old Mill Traditional Cache
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***********************THIS IS NOW A MULTICACHE************I have made this cache into a two part cache. you need to do this cache first so you can get the coordinates for the main cache which is called THE GLOBE
you can drive to the mill.
When you get there see if you can see the face in the rock.
You can eat,drink,sleep at the old mill.(at a Price) I must say the food is out of this world. I'll give it 10 out of 10 for the food.
Motherwell Mill or Dalziel Mill as it was first known, is situated on the west bank of the South Calder Water, at the foot of Braidhurst Street which runs from Miton Street (originally known as Milltoun Road) and is half a mile below Coursington Bridge. It was one of six Mills, from the one at Carfin in the south to Holm Ford Mill just below the old Holm Ford Bridge on the Motherwell/Bellshill Road. The others were Jerviston Mill, Braidhurst wauk Mill and Brigbrae Mill all of these were grain mills with the exception of Braidhurst which did not need water power, it only needed a small supply of water to wauk the cloth, this was supplied by the Ghillies Burn which ran nearby.
Kirk session records references to it is around the seventeenth century Originally- and until the property was taken over by Braidhurst- it was the Mill for Dalzell Estate and accordingly farmers and tenants on the estate were “firthirled” to the Mill. Through the centuries despite improvements and alterations the basic way of working remained unaltered. The oats were still placed in the kiln heated be coke or anthracite, dried and shelled, and then the groats were stone ground. Oatmeal for porridge !!!
1599
The earliest record of Motherwell Mill, taken from the Hamilton papers is the 13th July 1599, when Archibald Dalzell of Dalzell, carried off Jean Dalzell a girl of fourteen daughter of Nichol Dalzell, miller of Dalziel Mill and compelled her to marry him in the Kirk of Dalserf (3 miles away). The commissaries of Edinburgh discerned him to adhere to her, On the 22 May 1600, but she subsequently recovered her liberty, and, revoked the whole proceedings on 25th December, thereby gaining her freedom. He was put to the horn as the result of complaints to the Privy Council against him by John Morrison and the above named Nicol Dalzell. However, on the 4th August 1603, he obtained a dispensation until 20th November, because of his activity against the Clan MacGregor
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