Millburn (
Scottish Gaelic: ''Allt A'Mhuilinn'', meaning "The Mill Stream") is an area of the city of
Inverness
Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...
in the
Highland
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council area of
Scotland. The neighbourhood is situated just east of the city centre, beside the Mill Burn for which it's named.
The area is served by several primary schools in its surrounding area, with high school students attending the neighbourhood's own
Millburn Academy
Millburn Academy ( Gaelic: ''Acadamaidh Allt a' Mhuilinn'') is a six-year secondary school in Inverness, Scotland. It serves the portion of Inverness east of the River Ness along with rural areas to the south of the city's reach, with a catc ...
. Millburn Road, running parallel to the academy, is one of the main access roads into the centre of Inverness from the A9.
The area is also famous for
Millburn distillery, which produced
Scotch whisky
Scotch whisky (; sco, Scots whisky/whiskie, whusk(e)y; often simply called whisky or Scotch) is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two), made in Scotland.
All Scotch whisky was originally made from malted barley. Commercial distil ...
before its closure in 1985. Though most of its buildings were demolished, part of the distillery remains as a restaurant with a purpose-built
Premier Inn alongside.
Local History
According to one local memoir, an explosion occurred in 1781 at the city's
powder magazine Powder Magazine, Powder House, or Powderworks may refer to:
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on Church Street. Debris from the building landed in Millburn, and the sea nearby.
In September 1834,
Henry Brougham,
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The ...
made an official visit to Inverness. His carriage met the city's
Provost, magistrates, and a large crowd in Millburn.
A survey of Millburn was made by the
War Office in 1877, alongside areas of
Yorkshire and
Hampshire.
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Areas of Inverness