Overview
Orrin Falls is recorded as Hydroelectric Power Station (19th Century) in Scotland Highland. It is a work place built to produce and distribute power.
What this place is
The official record identifies Orrin Falls as Hydroelectric Power Station (19th Century) and ties that description to this exact place. It does not supply a complete secure date beyond the period in the saved type.
People and events
The safest reading of the exact type is a work place built to produce and distribute power. The record does not name every person who built, used or changed it, so those names are not invented.
How it was used
The label Hydroelectric Power Station (19th Century) gives the safest clue to purpose or form. It does not by itself prove the exact building method, daily use, age or sequence of changes at this place.
What survives
The official record fixes the place and calls it Hydroelectric Power Station (19th Century). It does not provide a full list of finds or a current condition report, so visible and buried remains are not guessed.
Why it mattered
Orrin Falls matters because the national record fixes a hydroelectric power station (19th century) at this exact place. That gives the local landscape evidence of worship, learning, care, housing, public life or work without claiming an unsupported event or owner.
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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- Bridgepark Woodforest0.4 miles
- Aultgowrie, Bridge Cottagemonument0.4 miles
- Fairburn Towercastle0.4 miles
- Tower Mainsmonument0.5 miles
- Aultgowrie, Orrin Bridgemonument0.5 miles
- Aultgowriemonument0.5 miles
- Cornhill Woodforest0.6 miles
- Aultgowrie Millmonument0.6 miles
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