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Cotton Row, DOUNE, FK16 6BF

One of several identical Stirling District Council notices in Deanston. The village has its own football team and pitch but residents were at one time plagued by youths who preferred practising in the streets.

View upstream of what looks very much like a canal. About six foot deep and approximately twenty wide it's a big lade delivering a lot of water to the distillery where after use and abstraction most is returned to the Teith. A fine example of Georgian engineering. See RCAHMS site record for view of lade when empty for maintenance on tunnel. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/305252/details/deanston+deanston+mills+culverted+lade+section/

Mill workers housing built in the 19th. century. the row on the right is called (the) First Division and was built for managers. The building on the right is (the) Second Division and housed the next level down from the exalted across the road. Interesting that (the) First Division has a level lower than the road and sits on the same level as the lade/canal which passes by in an underground tunnel very near the back of the houses. See RCAHMS site report http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/305252/details/deanston+deanston+mills+culverted+lade+section/

The old Deanston Mill can be seen in the distance.

The tunnel takes the lade into the distillery under the back gardens of (the) First Division houses to the right. See also RCAHMS site report of maintenance on lade and tunnel http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/305252/details/deanston+deanston+mills+culverted+lade+section/

Many of the houses in the village of Deanston were built in the early 19th century to house some of the 1000 or so people then employed at the nearby Adelphi Cotton Mill.

Deanston Primary school opened originally in 1897 and underwent extensive refurbishment in 1996. It currently has just under thirty pupils on its roll.