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Sutherland (Dornoch, Helmsdale, Brora, Golspie, Lairg, Durness, Tongue)
Golspie Mill
The history of the Mills at Golspie begins in about 1814 or 1816
when the Countess of Sutherland had a flour mill built in Golspie to
grind grain, especially wheat being grown on the newly improved
farms in the district. A house was built for the miller and his
family, and has always been lived in by the miller and his family.
Mill workers' cottages and outbuildings completed the burnside
complex.
The current Golspie Mill was built nearby in 1863 as a meal mill,
grinding mostly oats and bere. The mills worked in tandem until
around 1922, when the earlier mill was abandoned. The mills were run
until the earlier part of the 20th century under the feudal system
of thirlage, the miller as tacksman taking muture (a proportion of
the meal made) as his payment from the tenant of the estate (sucheners).
The Mackay family took over the mill from the Gunns and were the
last tenants working the mill in 1953, when milling activity ceased.
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