THE NETHERBOW WELLHEAD

Written By Kelly Mitchell

The Royal Mile

This Wellhead or Cistern, is the Oldest of the Surviving Cisterns designed y Sir William Bruce, surveyor of the Royal Works, and first built by Robert Milne, King’s Master Mason, in around 1675.  It has since been rebuilt.

The cisterns provided water from Comiston Springs via the Castlehill Reservoir for the inhabitants of the Old Town.

The Nethbrow Wellhead was repaired and restored to use with a basin and running drinking water by the Edinburgh Old Town Renewal Trust and Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Limited in 1997.

Kelly Mitchell
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