Scottish shale Scottish shale

Boghead No.11 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
post 1855
Closed:
pre 1895
Current status of site:
Returned to agriculture, no surface traces
Regional overview:
Mines in the Boghead coal

A pit in the Boghead estate to the Boghead gas coal. The location is marked on mineral plan, but no corresponding surface works are marked on later OS maps, as Boghead fireclay and brick works occupied much of the site.