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Welcome to DocMac! Docmac offers quality Bed and Breakfast accommodation in the village of Milton, near Invergordon in Ross-Shire, Scotland. Location: |
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Docmac has one twin room and one double room. The proprietor, Mrs Betty Docherty, assures you of a warm welcome, and a good menu selection at the breakfast table!
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Nearby to Milton is a large conservation area featuring a wide selection of wildlife and birds. Below are some excerpts from the article Milton 1479 to the Present Day by Jack Ross: "The village of Milltown was named after the Oatmeal Mill, first mentioned in old manuscripts as far back as 1479. Since then the village has seen both good times and bad. |
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The depopulation of the village started with the plaque and the Black Baron of Milltown Castle who had his own Courthouse and Jailhouse. Anybody who spoke out against the Baron's rule was hanged or drowned. Famine caused partly through poverty also caused the population to dwindle until a gentleman called Montgomery started a wool and flax mill. At the same time he also opened a stocking factory and a snuff mill, work in these factories helped to elevate some of the poverty and starvation during these times. A Drovers Inn, two Alehouses, a shoemaker, baker and butcher shop were located in the village, and at one time the village had the reputation of being the most industrial village in the area. The market cross on the village green was the place where the estate held four markets a year at which everything was sold or bartered for, including cattle, sheep, hens, and grain. In 1923 a general stores was opened, shortly after the flax and wool mill and also the snuff mill were closed. The main electricity line came into Milltown in 1938; Colonel Blunt Mackenzie of Tarbat Estate was responsible for this development. For a hundred years the villagers had used water from a well sited in the village but in 1951 the water was condemned and the villagers had to use the mains water supply. 1958 saw the water that had powered the oatmeal mill cut off as the intake from the river was washed away by a flash flood. The mill then had to be powered by electricity. Many farmers changed from the growing of oats to the growing of barley which meant that the mill rather than using local oats had to haulage oats from Aberdeenshire, the sheer cost of this led to the demise of the mill and in 1966 it had to close. In the early 1970's the name Milltown was changed to Milton for postal reasons. By 1972 the village with the exception of the twenty-four houses built for the council in the woods to the west site of the village was called a Conservation Area. The council bought mill land and despite local protest and advice from the planning department, built houses to the tune of ten to one already existing. These were to accommodate workers from the newly built British Aluminium works in Invergordon. More land was then purchased to build a new school to accommodate the associated incoming children. Tullich and Kilmuir schools were then closed and the pupils moved to Milton School. By 1976 all the new housing stock was filled." |
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