what are these place names please?

Spacot · Post by **Spacot** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:35 pm

Hi Karen
Just grazing the post and came across yours, A Walk Mill was for wool, at one point in changing fleece to fabric the wool is walked or waulked, it helps to (I am not quite sure how it was done, but went to a very interesting talk on Waulkmills once) Every area with sheep would have its own Waulkmill either exclusively used by the miller and his "staff", or available for the people of the area to use, I Live in Wigtownshire and their are the remains of 3 Waulkmillls on a 5 mile stretch of the Bladnoch River. so your family area would probably have a Waulkmiln fairly close to a far or Fermtoune of Cleuch Head
Spacot

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:34 am

There’s a bit more info on Walkmills on page 177 of this Google Book.

An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language - 1835

http://www.google.com.au/books?id=Wwi5s ... =RA1-PA177

Alan

karenmcc · Post by **karenmcc** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:32 am

Thanks for the extra info,

Karen