Photograph © Jim Woodward-Nutt, under this Creative Commons licence

Finzean wood-working mills

Grid reference: NO 578 912
OS sheet: 45
Postcode: AB31 6NE
On the Forest of Birse road, W of B976 at Finzean, midway between Banchory and Aboyne.

A complex of three mills:

Bucket Mill. A single storey, timber-built 19th century wood-turning mill, with a 13ft 6in start and awe wheel, restored in the 1980s. Making wooden buckets. Buckets on sale.
Forest Row sawmill & turning mill. Dating from the early 19th century, comprising a sawmill with a 14ft 6in wheel, a turning mill with a 9ft 8in wheel, and a generator with a smaller wheel, all still working and fed though an impressive system of lades.

Now owned by the Birse Community Trust.

By appointment only.

By appointment only.

Birse Community Trust, tel. 01330 850200.

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