Gas Company was formed in Presteigne in 1859. In 1881 W.E. Rogers was the Manager. In 1898 J.A. Bisley was the engineer and manager and E. Ince was the secretary, the gasworks made 1180 cu.ft. of gas from 136 tons of coal. In 1933 C. A. Valdes of Hove was Secretary to the Hay, Llandrindod Wells, Llanfyllin, Presteign and Stow-on-the-Wold gas companies. In 1949 the annual gas production was 3.5m cu.ft.. In 1952 the “Gas World Year Book”, showed that Presteigne gasworks was manufacturing 2 m cu.ft. of gas using horizontal plant. S.C. Castleton was the engineer and manager. The gasworks were visible on the 1884 to 1949 OS maps.
