Blaydon Burn
Introduction
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Blaydon Burn
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 24 Feb 2012
The east bank of Blaydon Burn, downstream from the site Massey’s Forge, is reinforced by a high stone retaining wall, strengthened at a later time by concrete buttresses. The large sandstone blocks extending from the right are thought to have been part of a former weir or sluice. Old maps show a mill race downstream for one of the burn's C18th watermills, known as Rennison’s or Pickering’s Mill, all remains of which disappeared under Cowen's Low Yard around 1830.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.965181
Longitude
-1.722581