Earlston, Church Street, Gasworks
Gas Works (19th Century)
Site Name Earlston, Church Street, Gasworks
Classification Gas Works (19th Century)
Canmore ID 55532
Site Number NT53NE 48
NGR NT 5791 3853
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/55532
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Earlston
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Berwickshire
Sbc Note
Possible site of medieval tower of Ercildoune. A descriptive account in 1875 by Andrew Currie of Darnick, and recounted by J.A.H. Murray, describes the discovery of paving slabs and foundations made up of large hewn stones found in the location of the Victorian Gasworks in approximately 1835. Possibly the site of the Earl's of Dunbar residence in Earlston, or the medieval home of Thomas the Rhymer's family prior to the construction of the later Rhymer's Tower. Currie also felt there were two Earlston's, one on the Lauder Road (A68) north of Rhymer's Tower and, the other focussed around the Earl's Tower. The latter became modern Earlston and subsumed the other.
Information from Scottish Borders Council, August 2015
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding building.
Information from Scottish Borders Council.
