What is recorded here

Taymouth Castle, Estate Gasworks stands in Perth and Kinross as a 19th Century gas facility, likely lighting castle rooms before electric wires arrived. Heat, pressure and flame moved through pipes to make darkness useful. The estate needed light for halls, gardens and workrooms, so the gasworks existed to serve that hunger.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Taymouth Castle, Estate Gasworks as Gas Works (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Taymouth Castle, Estate Gasworks was built in the 19th century as part of the Taymouth Castle estate, likely to support the estate's domestic and industrial needs. It is remembered as an example of the infrastructure developed to serve large landed estates during the industrializing period in Scotland.

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