Impressive Weir on Logie Water
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Impressive Weir on Logie Water
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 22 Jun 2021
Water used to be taken from the left side of this weir to power Westfield Paper Mill, which operated from sometime in the 19th Century until 2002. Due to the mill having been operational until so recently historical details about it online are rather scarce - there would probably be more written had it been demolished in 1902! So I don't know when it stopped being powered by water. Old maps do show, though, that for most of its time it was a substantial operation and that it occupied land on both sides of this decent-sized burn by the middle of the 20th Century. Logie Water is a very brief watercourse, lasting for less than a mile. It is formed by the confluence of Barbauchlaw Burn and Couston Water, and shortly afterwards joins the River Avon.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.927187
Longitude
-3.691622