Sites and Monument Record: Denny Paper Mill (Kirkland Mill, Headswood Mill) (SMR 491)

Description
Most of the buildings of the paper mill were demolished in the 1980s and a small industrial estate put in their place.
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Object detail

Site type
building
paper mill
lint mill
Site history notes
When John Livingston of Kirkland married Margaret Doig in 1621 the couple received a grant of lands which included the mill and mill lands of Kirkland. John Robertson was named as miller there in 1652. James Kirwood was tenant there in 1787 and the last mention of the mill under this name is in 1794.
The mill appears on Grassom's map of 1817, though it is not named. In the 1840s it was managed by Alexander Kerr, who is said to have "used it as a lint or linen mill and rented land from farmers to grow the flax he required." It is shown on the 1st ed OS as the Kirkwood Bleachfield, but by this time it was disused. Later it changed to Headswood Mill, and eventually to the Denny Paper Works.
John Luke, paper maker in Denny, had been the manager at Robert Weir's Carrongrove Works and in 1869 he leased the old Kirkwood Bleachfield. He converted it into a paper works, which he operated between 1869 and 1894. It was, for a short period, known as Headswood Mill.
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NS 827 825

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