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St Monans Windmill

The windmill is the most tangible reminder of an industry along both shores of the Firth of Forth, salt production, the role of the windmill was to provide the power to pump sea water from tidally-fed reservoirs cut into the rocks offshore into the salt pans.

 

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Taken on September 20, 2011