Falls of E'e

© Gordon Brown and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

Leaving Strathaven Park we walk through the town square towards Sandford.  Once outside the town we cut across fields to the banks of the Avon Water.

Carrying on along the water's edge we come to the ruins of an old mill and the Falls of E'e (pronounced eye)*, where the River Kype meets the Avon Water.  Onwards to the village of Sandford before eventually returning to Strathaven.

*A young local lad fell in love with the miller's daughter.  The miller disapproved of the union and ended the relationship.  As revenge the lad placed an eye glass in the miller's thatch, causing it to catch fire and the mill was burned to the ground.  Hence the name of the mill and nearby falls.