Its original nucleus was the old mill with associated buildings, the smithy, toll house and the miller's and workers dwellings.

The hamlet has had many names recorded, including Barbauch, Burborough, Burnburgh, Burburgh, Burbrught, Barbaroch, Barbarock, Burbrough, Bird-brugh, Barbouy and Barbuy.

The first record of the name on Roy's map of 1747-1755 indistinctly reads as 'Bolybruchhead' but no mill or settlement is marked and what is now Whitespots Hill may be intended.

This water supply was part of the Garroch Waterpower Scheme[6] that powered the Park limesrone works, Stepends Farm threshing machine, etc.

The first record of Barburgh Mill (NX 90116 88316) is that John Padzean, the Covenanter, worked there in 1684, possibly as the miller as Thomas Macmurdy is also noted, but simply as a resident.

[6] Barburgh Mill House stands to the west of the burn and provided accommodation for the miller with a sundial in 1854, usually a high-status feature.

[17] In 1945 Barburgh Mill Roman fortlet (NX 9021 8844) was discovered close to the mill and in 1971 it was fully excavated prior to gravel-quarrying at the location Quarry operations that destroyed all of the north side of the fortlet and a great deal of its southern side.

[18] Barburgh Mill lies in Nithsdale, a natural communication corridor that has resulted in the main A76 road passing through it and railway the cutting through it a higher level.

[7] The 'Martyrs Cross' at Dalgarnock Kirk does not record the deaths of the Covenanters John Padzean or Thomas Macmurdy, suggesting that they survived the 'Killing Times'.

[John] Kirkpatrick [in Barburgh head], We have received information from our friends in Nithsdale how you retaining your old malignity and enmity against the people of God have in pursuance there of adventured to run the risque of meddling with the monument of the dead, demolishing and breaking the gravestone of a sufferer for the cause of Christ which is highly criminal in the eyes of the law, and is more than your neck is worth, and deserves just severity as bringing to remembrance your old hatred, and the hand you had in his sufferings.

And now ye seem to be longing for a visit for your old murthering actions, which if you would evite, we straitly charge and command you, upon your perill to repair that stone, by laying one upon the grave, fully as good as the former with the same precise motto as well engraven, and that you perform the work with all expedition, and if it be not done against May day first [1714], which is a sufficient time, we promise to pay you a visit, perhaps to your cost, and if you oblige us which to assure yourself that your old deeds will be remembered to purpose which to assure you of we have ordered this to be written in presence of our correspondence at Crawford-John, March 1, 1714, and subscribed in our name by Hu[gh].

Clerk, c[ler]k.”[23] The name 'Barbrough' is said by the Ordnance Survey to mean 'the whizzing town', derived from the humming noise from the lint manufacturing process[2] The name 'Lintmill Pool' is thought to come from a previous use of the mill for the preparation of lint or linen from flax (Linum usitatissimum) however it is also noted that flax (Linum usitatissimum) was left in various deep 'lint pools' along the river as part of the retting or rotting process that came before the flax was taken to be processed in the mill.

[27] In 1704 John Nivison of Barbouy (Barburgh) placed a memorial to his father, who had been the miller at Closeburn at Dalgarnock Cemetery.

Isabella Love, daughter of John and Henrietta McKerlie, died at the mill on 15 July 1871 aged 18 months.

[2] In British usage Enterkinfoot is technically a hamlet rather than a village as it has always lacked a formal dedicated church of its own.