Here is a remarkable piece of functional stone architecture dating from the 1820’s with the purpose of damming the Cocks Burn immediately adjacent to Mid Letterick Farm. Just beyond Crossbasket and Greenhall, at around 10 feet tall, by 16 feet wide built of stone masonry, the dam contained a sluice mechanism to control and let […]
1987 was the “European year of the Environment”. As part of this heritage celebration, the Crossbasket Christian Society organized a guided walks day titled “The Three Estates” on 21st March 1987. The intention was to walk through Crossbasket, Greenhall and Milheugh estates and to show the renovation and preservation of the environment through the decades. This […]
Letterick, is an area immediately to the north of Greenhall, but just out the Parish boundary. It is still close enough though to Blantyre to be considered part of this area and feels closer to Blantyre than East Kilbride. It is accessed from the Dalton Road, leading off from Stoneymeadow. A mill stood on the […]