At Milltown of Cairnbulg, directly opposite Cairnbulg Castle, the Line crosses a small farm road and what was once a mill lade . The cast iron bridge carrying the Line was reconstructed in 1927 as part of a wider programme of bridge reconstruction on the Line.
Milltown of Cairnbulg bridge looking up the Line towards Fraserburgh
A notice regarding the expiry of the lease of Milltown of Cairnbulg, then part of the Philorth Estate, which appeared in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 8th July 1812, gives a fascinating insight into farming methods at the time:
‘lying
in a centrical situation, and in a fertile district of the country; within a
few miles of the town and Harbour of Fraserburgh,and about thirteen from
Peterhead, to both which towns, as well as to Aberdeen, there are good turnpike
roads going through the Estate. The Lands are entitled to take Sea Ware
and Shell Sand from the shore of Cairnbulg, where there is abundance of these
manures, as well as an easy access of procuring dung from the fishing village,
and the towns above-mentioned.’
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| The farm is no longer part of the Philorth Estate, nor is it a mill. |
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