Preston Mill

We passed this mill while walking from East Linton to Dunbar along the John Muir Way today. Preston Mill dates originally from at least 1599 and was used for grinding oatmeal commercially until 1959 after which it became the property of the National Trust of Scotland. With its attractive conical roofed kiln roof and the millpond in the foreground it is popular with artists but what most impressed me were the stone markers showing the heights of significant floods in recent years. A mill lade leads from the River Tyne but a stone at roof level indicates that on August 12 1948 the flood water reached the first floor of the mill. On a previous walk earlier in the year the river had been considerably higher then it was today but it was nowhere near levels sometimes seen and we did not need to negotiate deep muddy puddles alongside the fields this time.