Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . o. y, c THE ABIiEV IJUILDINGS 3();5 the Overniiln. Both were meal mihis. Near the Netherniihiwas a brewhouse. (The Abbey itself was probably suppliedwith water from the Ladewells in the face of the hill to thesouth of it.) The road from Kirkton to Balmerino aftercrossing the burn (the bridge over which was not erected tillabout a hundred years ago) turned northwards, and led downthe west side of the biu-n to the Nethermiln; and the presentroad between the two rows of houses standing west of thebridge did not the
Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . o. y, c THE ABIiEV IJUILDINGS 3();5 the Overniiln. Both were meal mihis. Near the Netherniihiwas a brewhouse. (The Abbey itself was probably suppliedwith water from the Ladewells in the face of the hill to thesouth of it.) The road from Kirkton to Balmerino aftercrossing the burn (the bridge over which was not erected tillabout a hundred years ago) turned northwards, and led downthe west side of the biu-n to the Nethermiln; and the presentroad between the two rows of houses standing west of thebridge did not then exist. On the knoll south of the Nethermiln, and west of the ladewhich supplied it, stood the large Dovecot of of the existing xVbbey granary, and near the site of thepresent stackyard, stood the Malt-kiln and barn, to which the ward and nutyard already mentioned are described as being adjacent. The Nethermiln, dovecot, malt-kiln, and barnwere in existence about seventy years ago. West of the Abbey, and of the road leading from Balmerinoto Bvres, was situated the
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