Visit to Deanston. Originally a village designed around a mill, however the mill is now a distillery. Smells amazing! Note the discolouring of the brickwork of the distillery. The black sludge is from ethanol. It is characteristic of distilleries.

The old mill housing is largely still in tact. Set out in Divisions, the foremen got the posher digs with the arched steps going up to the front door. These were the First Division.

Second, Third and Fourth Divisions housed the workers and are long straight lines of terraced housing. The original front doors are still there and they all look rather tired.

We also walked along the Mill Lade which looks rather like a canal, but it allowed the control of water to help power the mill. You can see it now has automated controls and is headed off at a weir which also has a fish ladder/pass to its side (looks like a set of steps for water to flow down and fish to jump up). Naturally I wanted to crank the mechanism and watch the water flow but sadly (not for everyone else – just the kid in me) it’s all behind secured gates! Good view of Old Kilmadock graveyard on the opposite bank (marked as St Aedhs on the map). https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/…/dea…/index.html