Good point. A lot of the UK has piped gas, often built before natural gas was a thing (it would have been supplied with "town gas" which you can make with coal) and then retrofitted for methane last century, I remember as a kid seeing stuff marked as suitable for the "new" natural gas - the conversion had finished at about the time I was born.
But in rural areas it makes no sense. Running a single phase electricity conductor overhead for everything is affordable unless you live somewhere crazy like up a mountain or on your own island, but piped gas, sewage, etc. is just too expensive to justify. This is another reason to favour heat pumps, the heat pump runs off the same electricity as your household appliances, your PC, and your lighting, if you fit solar panels or add a private wind turbine (if you're a hilltop farm latter can make a lot of sense) that's all electricity and it Just Works™.
But in rural areas it makes no sense. Running a single phase electricity conductor overhead for everything is affordable unless you live somewhere crazy like up a mountain or on your own island, but piped gas, sewage, etc. is just too expensive to justify. This is another reason to favour heat pumps, the heat pump runs off the same electricity as your household appliances, your PC, and your lighting, if you fit solar panels or add a private wind turbine (if you're a hilltop farm latter can make a lot of sense) that's all electricity and it Just Works™.