page_title: Barburgh Mill
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Barburgh Mill / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Menteth of Closeburn family burial ground, Dalgarnock, Dumfries &amp; Galloway, Scotland. Previously 'Menteath'. They became baronets.
context_page_description: Barburgh Mill is a hamlet composed of an old lint mill, later extended as a woollen mill and associated buildings which lies north of Auldgirth on the A76 on the route to Closeburn, in Dumfriesshire, Closeburn Parish, in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. Its original nucleus was the old mill with associated buildings, the smithy, toll house and the miller's and workers dwellings. The site features the A76 that runs nearby, the River Nith and the Lake Burn that once powered the mill via a lade before joining the Nith. The area is famous for its association with the Covenanters. A Roman fortlet stood opposite the mill and a Roman road is thought to have run through Nithsdale at this point.
context_section_description: The hamlet stands about 4 km south of Closeburn and is now consistently known as 'Barburgh' and the stream recorded as the Lake Burn with its source partly from the site of the old Closeburn Loch. The hamlet has had many names recorded, including Barbauch, Burborough, Burnburgh, Burburgh, Burbrught, Barbaroch, Barbarock, Burbrough, Bird-brugh, Barbouy and Barbuy. Previously to 1606 and for a period up until 1697 the hamlet lay in the parish of Dalgarnock.
  The first record of the name on Roy's map of 1747-1755 indistinctly reads as 'Bolybruchhead' but no mill or settlement is marked and what is now Whitespots Hill may be intended.
  The Lake Burn runs down from the site of the now drained Closeburn Loch near Closeburn Castle and has its confluence here with the River Nith at the Lintmill Pool. The area is famous for its association with the Covenanters and the events of the so-called 'Killing Times' that occurred during the reigns of Charles II and James VI and II and eventually led to the establishment of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
  In the 1848-58 OS Name Book the name is given as 'Burbrough' with several cottages present with gardens and at that time a bobbin mill, making the wooden bobbins vital to spinning and weaving, in what was previously a lint or linen mill. The small Cairns school stood near Cairns Farm, Blackwood and the Railway Cottages in 1899.
  In 1901 Watson refers to a 'Bar Brugh' or 'Defence Fort' made from an "..immense mass of stones contiguous to the farm of Cairn, and situated on a narrow plain bounded on one side by the Bar-Hill and on the other side by the River Nith." He states that this circular fort of uncemented stones guarded the entrance to the parish from the south-east however. A S/E confusion with N/W may explain the reference as no such structure or name exists elsewhere in the parish. The railway runs through this site and may have destroyed any fort that existed near Cairn Farm.
caption: Burial site of Charles Stuart Menteth of Closeburn at Dalgarnock.
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