Carron, Imperial Distillery | Canmore

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Distillery (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Carron, Imperial Distillery

Classification Distillery (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 16382

Site Number NJ24SW 10

NGR NJ 22160 41245

NGR Description Centred NJ 22060 41245

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16382

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Carron, Imperial Distillery
View from WNW showing bonded stores and offices

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Carron, Imperial Distillery View from WNW showing bonded stores and offices

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Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

19/5/1974

© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the E.

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/2/2003

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the ENE.

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/2/2003

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the N.

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the N.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/2/2003

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the NW.

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/2/2003

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Oblique view centred on the whisky distillery with the bridge adjacent, taken from the WNW.

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Oblique view centred on the whisky distillery with the bridge adjacent, taken from the WNW.

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11/2/2003

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Carron, Imperial Distillery
General view of production buildings

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Carron, Imperial Distillery General view of production buildings

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Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

19/5/1974

© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the NE.

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/2/2003

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Oblique view centred on the whisky distillery with the bridge adjacent, taken from the WSW.

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Oblique view centred on the whisky distillery with the bridge adjacent, taken from the WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/2/2003

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the SSW.

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the SSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/2/2003

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the S.

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Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the S.

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11/2/2003

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Carron, Imperial Distillery, NJ24SW 10, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Carron, Imperial Distillery, NJ24SW 10, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division)

Carron, Imperial Distillery
View from WNW showing bonded stores and offices

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the E.

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the ENE.

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the N.

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the NW.

Oblique view centred on the whisky distillery with the bridge adjacent, taken from the WNW.

Carron, Imperial Distillery
General view of production buildings

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the NE.

Oblique view centred on the whisky distillery with the bridge adjacent, taken from the WSW.

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the SSW.

Oblique aerial view centred on the whisky distillery, taken from the S.

Carron, Imperial Distillery, NJ24SW 10, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Administrative Areas

Council Moray
Parish Knockando
Former Region Grampian
Former District Moray
Former County Morayshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ24SW 10.00 centred 22060 41245

Imperial Distillery [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2010.

NJ24SW 10.01 21572 41597 1-10 Imperial Cottages

(Location cited as NJ 222 412). Imperial Distillery, built 1897. The production buildings are mainly of red brick, but there is a masonry block of single-storey offices and a similar range of 1-storey bonded stores, both with crow-stepped gables..

J R Hume 1977.

Air photographs: AAS/97/06/G12/1-4 and AAS/97/06/CT.

NMRS, MS/712/29.

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