Category: Libraries
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Perthshire Libraries: Leighton and Innerpeffray
Perthshire is unique in Scotland – perhaps unique in Britain – for containing two seventeenth-century public libraries, both still housed in purpose-built early modern buildings: the Leighton Library in Dunblane and the Innerpeffray Library in Innerpeffray. The Leighton Library was established in 1684 under the terms of the will of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow…