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Dysart Combination
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Poorhouses - Scotland
Plans were drawn up for this poorhouse in 1860 by James Walker, and it was opened a year later. It was situated at Thornton, near the railway, in Markinch parish – the combination originally comprising Markinch, Dysart and Wemyss.
A description and map can be found here.
A detached hospital was added to the north around 1900 (it appears on the OS map revised in 1913). Later known as Thornton Home, it closed during the Second World War and was demolished in the 1960s. [Sources: Scottish Record Office, (Now the National Records of Scotland) plans, RHP 30849/1‑27.]
A copy of “Fife Council Archives indexes: Dysart Combination Poorhouse index 1868-1888” (Fife: 2006) is held by The National Library of Scotland.