Welcome to an absolutely gorgeous day here in East Lothian.
And today we're in East Linton.
It's a beautiful little village.
And I'm going to go for a walk about because I believe that they filmed
Outlander here.
So we're heading to Preston Mill Phantassie Doocot.
And it's not fantasy with a F.
It's fantasy with a PH.
But first, we've got a walk through East Linton.
And like all towns in East Lothian, it's actually gorgeous,
with the church through there.
Look at this old stone brickwork.
Look at these beautiful street lamps.
There's the Crown and Kitchen Gastro Pub,
boutique rooms, riverside cottages.
And here's the town square
with a fountain that's not working.
Is it Red Nose, day to day.
Here's the church.
So Preston Mill, the place we’re heading to was used in the first series of Outlander.
Actually, quite a lot of places in East Lothian and around
Edinburgh have been used in the filming of Outlander.
I love the pastel colors on these houses
and more of
those lamps.
And here is Preston Kirk.
There's some history here.
You know,
gorgeous, gorgeous, old red stonework.
This is the River Tyne, not the River Tyne in Newcastle.
This is the Scottish River Tyne.
And Preston Mill is powered by a waterwheel, so we must be getting close.
And here we are.
Preston Mill, the National Trust
for Scotland.
Welcome to Preston
Mill and Phantassie Doocot.
Strange spelling of the word Phantassie.
I've no idea what it means. I’m going to have to Google that.
Oh, isn't this pretty?
And look at the shape of that building
just ahead of us.
I can definitely see why they chose this as a location for Outlander.
Let's go have a proper look around.
Apparantly they kept hens and pigs in here.
Well, there's a wooden pig
and a wooden hen.
Now this distinctive cone shaped building is actually a drying kiln.
It's where they dried the grain.
So somebody would have
heft the grain up to the top in sacks, spread it out along the floor.
And then there were fires burning underneath to dry the grain off.
Then the grain was put into the mill to be ground up by the millstones into flour.
And this is one of the fires that heated up
the drying kiln.
And right up at the top, that part of the drying kiln used to rotate with the wind.
And the pointy thing was called the Hand of Friendship.
So the Miller knew which way the wind was blowing, but apparently
it blew off in the 1960s and it's been fixed in place ever since.
Apparently, these tiles came all the way from the Netherlands.
And it was here
just behind me in season one of Outlander that Jamie Fraser had to get his kits off
and dive into the water to fix the water, which had broken.
A lot of people got a great big eye for one day.
History really is fascinating, isn't it?
See these stones embedded in the wall?
They measure how high floodwaters have been over the years.
And that was 1983, 1990.
And that one way above my head, 1948,
this place was almost completely submerged.
Now we're going to go inside and have a look at how
all the milling machinery works.
Here we are inside the drying kiln.
And this is where, as you would expect, they dried
the barley and the oats.
This is really, really powerful.
Well, do you know what?
That was absolutely fascinating.
My tour guide was called Andy, and as you would expect,
he knew absolutely everything about the history of Preston Mill
and the process of drying and milling the grain.
And the processes were fascinating with all those wheels
and cogs and pulleys and bands.
You know, you can really feel the power of history in a place like this.
And once you've done the tour of the mill, the grounds are worth exploring as well.
It's absolutely gorgeous down here by the river.
Now, there's one place I want to show you before the end of the vlog.
Now, Preston Mill was built back in the 1600s, so obviously
an ancient building, but they're building something new here in East Linton.
And I think it will be worth taking a look at.
Here we are, almost finished.
East Linton Train Station.
Yeah, that's right.
East Linton is getting its own brand new railway station.
And of course, this is the East Coast main line from Edinburgh
all the way down to London, King's Cross.
So it's going to be a lot easier to visit East Linton on the train
if you fancy going and having a look at Preston Mill and its fascinating history.
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