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Cupar, Prestonhall, Trading Estate
Factory (Period Unassigned), Industrial Estate (Modern)
Site Name Cupar, Prestonhall, Trading Estate
Classification Factory (Period Unassigned), Industrial Estate (Modern)
Alternative Name(s) Anglo-scottish Beet Sugar Corporation Limited
Canmore ID 312360
Site Number NO31SE 449
NGR NO 38950 14955
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/312360
- Council Fife
- Parish Cupar
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
Publication Account (2013)
SUGAR SILO
East of Cupar A91 roundabout
Opened in 1926 by the Anglo-Scottish Sugar Beet Corporation, the Cupar sugar mill was the only processing plant for beet sugar north of the
Tyne. In 1935 1500 Scottish farmers supplied beet to Cupar, and then it was that the British Sugar Corporation came together to coordinate the
already-built sugar beet refineries to ensure selfsufficiency in sugar, after shortages in WWI, when sugar cane imports were under attack, and to support farmers across Scotland (Oakley, 1937). The silo is a massive cylindrical tower built in 1964. Yet the refinery closed in 1971 and a number of lower buildings around the silo form an industrial estate.
M Watson, 2013
