Girlsta Water Mill

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Girlsta Water Mill, in Girlsta, at the head of Wadbister Voe, is one of the three large vertical water mills that was built in Shetland around the middle of the 19th century. (The two others are the nearby Weisdale Mill, built in 1855, and Quendale Water Mill, built in1867.) The Water mill was built in 1861 by the Lerwick based merchants Hay & Company.
The water source that was used, was the owerflow from the Girlsta Loch.
It's 3.66m water wheel is still in place with remains of it's wooden water buckets. The back part of the building is roofless, but the largest part has a rather new roof, as it in recent years has been used by a fish farming company.

Nearby is the Girlsta Lime Kiln and the rebuilt old Girlsta Pier.

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Some photos taken in 2008, showing the state of the mill.

Some old photographs of Girlsta Water Mill

The mill in the late 1890's Photo from Shetland Museum and Archives.

The mill in 1922 Photo from Shetland Museum and Archives.

A group at Girlsta mill's water wheel Photo from Shetland Museum and Archives.