Sites and Monument Record: Bonny Mill (Seabegs Mill) (SMR 770)

Description
Some of the mill buildings are now incorporated into the Mill Garage, Bridge St. The date 1794 appears on the lintel of the first floor doorway at the NE gable.

Object detail

Site type
Site
mill; water
Site history notes
The mill is said to have been rebuilt in 1739 using some of the stones from the old chapel of St Helen's. The lintel over the door in the east gable bears the date 1794. This may be related to rebuilding work undertaken in consequence of the construction of the Forth & Clyde Canal – the lade and mill pond being on the opposite side of the canal. In 1922 a fire started near the kiln where some bags of grain were being dried.

Alexander Stratoun, in 1506, sold "two part of the lands of Seybegis, with the mill thereof" to Alexander Livingston of Dunipace. This was the baronial mill of Seabegs. John Bruce, designed as "in Bonymylne" may have been the miller there in 1618. John Hagie certainly was in 1624. In 1651 Thomas Grey in Beam confessed to the baron court of Falkirk "the goeing to Bonymylnes" instead of to his astricted mill in the Barony of Callendar. James Linlithgow was the miller in 1666, but by 1673 it was John Grindlay, who was the longest serving on record as he was still there in 1719. Presumably it was his descendant, Charles Grindlay, who was described as "merchant at Bonnymiln" in 1737, when he bought part of the lands of Seabegs called Milnquarter.

In 1863 it consisted of “flour mill, barley mill and thrashing mill, and grain lofts, with dwelling house, byre, stables, & c.”
Site grid ref
NS 8243 8017

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