Watermill and associated water management.


It is thought that two grain mills, rented by William Hubart 'near Castletown' and recorded in the 1511 Manorial Roll, refer to the Golden Meadow site. The existing mill buildings are more modern, and a newspaper report of 1816 would seem to confirm that they had at that time been recently constructed.


The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping of 1868 shows the complex as a 'water mill (corn)'.


Water power is derived from a millpond immediately to the north of the mill complex, which is fed by a leat extending nearly 600m upstream to a meander in the Silver Burn, where a substantial weir and sluice forms the draw-off.


The millpond originally covered an area of nearly an acre, and was impounded by a substantial embankment along its east side. The leat was similarly embanked along nearly half its length. The OS shows no sluice controlling flow into the leat; a single sluice on the east side of the millpond and an overflow race previents the pond from overflowing.


During the later 1990s the millpond embankment began to fail, causing flooding in the adjoining meadows. The pond was allowed to drain and is now largely overgrown.