Weir Waterfall on South Calder Water

Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 13 Jun 2021

The large object in the middle of the burn at the foot of the weir was no doubt once part of the holding structure - a short section of brick wall on the left looks like it might be the next thing to go. This is variously described as a waterfall, a weir and a dam depending on the age of the map. I couldn't see an obvious mill lade leading from it, only a short channel of water on the right hand side, a good few yards away from the waterfall. Old maps indicate that, unusually, the mill lade initially flowed underground before continuing more conventionally to a fairly large mill pond (almost always referred to on the old maps, however large, as mill dams, which I always thing a little odd) at Allanton Mill. The former grain mill is still standing but the milling has long stopped.

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