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Errol, Perth and Kinross history

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Prehistory

A ring ditch 450 metres (1,500 feet) east of Mains of Errol is thought to be the remains of timber roundhouse visible as cropmarks on aerial images. Aerial images suggest a settlement, with a rectangular building, souterrain and pits.

Village and parish

Errol Parish can be dated back to the creation of a barony by William the Lion granted to the Hay family in the twelfth century. A descendant, in James II’s reign, was created Earl of Errol. The oldest surviving parish register of births and marriages in Scotland is for Errol parish and dates from 1553.

Errol Park

The lands of Errol passed from the Hays to Sir Patrick Ogilvie in 1648 when the estate was said to have been lost in a gambling debt. Sir Thomas Blair of Balthaycock owned it in 1652 and by 1741 George Middleton, a London banker, lived there. The Allens commissioned the notable A-listed Classical circular stables by John Paterson in 1811; which was extended by adding a tower in 1899.

Churches

Errol North Church was built in 1832 to replace the earlier church, for a congregation of 1434 people. The old churchyard, in School Wynd, was the original site of the parish church in the 1600s. In the 1840s there were also places of worship for the United Secession Church, the Free Church of Scotland, and the Relief Church.

Schools

Parish schools run by the Church of Scotland and paid for by local landowners. Parish schools set up by an Act of Parliament in 1696 and open to all boys and girls. It is likely Errol had its first school in the 1700s. The main parish school had a master and an assistant, whose salaries were paid by the heritors.

Port Allen

Port Allen granted a charter in 1662 and had its own meal mill, replaced with a horsemill by the 1870s. It is estimated around 200 people lived there in 1700s.

Errol aerodrome

RAF Errol Airfield was requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence in 1939. The aerodrome opened as an RAF station for training pilots on 1 August 1942. The main runway continues to be used for aviation and is now a business park.

Inchcoonans tile and brick works

Inchcoonans Tile Works opened in 1855 producing mainly bricks for building and field drainage tiles. The site features two Beehive kilns, which are the only remaining examples of their kind in Scotland.

Errol Station

Errol Station opened in 1847 by the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company. The line took a direct route and thus the station is north of the village at a separate hamlet. The first station master was Thomas Jagger and the last left Errol in 1976; the station finally closed on 28 September 1985.

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