Waukmills Bleachfield
Location type
WorksName and dates
Waukmills BleachfieldServed by the Arbroath and Forfar Railway.
Description
This was a linen mill on the Brothock Water, producing yarn. It was a large works about three miles north of Arbroath on the east side of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway and served by a siding which approached from a reversing spur to the west and ran into the works via a short loop and a turnplate. It was owned by John Hay of Letham Grange House. These works were originally waulk mills but came to be used for bleaching flax yarn. There was a mill dam in the middle of the site and a rope walk was added to its north east.
Little remains of the works other than the mill race and a single house.
Tags
WorksAliases
Wauk Mills of Letham Bleach Works| Nearby stations Letham Grange Colliston Arbroath Arbroath (Catherine Street) Cauldcots Leysmill Arbroath (Lady Loan) Cuthlie Arbirlot Arbroath West Links Hospitalfield Halt Elliot Junction Denhead Inverkeilor Friockheim | Waukmill Level Crossing Box Letham Quarry Letham Quarry Signal Box Letham Mill Siding Letham Mill Arbroath ^The Dens^ Siding St Vigeans Junction Dens Iron Works Arbroath Shed Arbroath Shed [1st] Tourist/other Waulkmill Signal Box Letham Grange Hotel St Vigeans Stones and Museum St Vigeans Level Crossing Colliston Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 The Arbroath and Forfar Railway: The Dundee Direct Line and the Kirriemuir Branch (Oakwood Library of Railway History) |
