Scottish shale Scottish shale

Boghead No.12 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
c.1855
Closed:
by 1872?
Current status of site:
Grazing - no surface traces of pit or brickworks remain
Regional overview:
Mines in the Boghead coal

A pit in the Boghead estate, 47 fathoms deep to the Boghead Gas Coal. The pithead site was redeveloped c. 1874 as part of the site of the Boghead fireclay and brick works. Served as the upcast to Bathville No.4