Scottish shale Scottish shale

Boghead No.3 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
c.1852
Closed:
prior to c.1870
Current status of site:
The houses of Falside Crescent now occupy the site.
Regional overview:
Mines in the Boghead coal

A pit in the Boghead estate, to the Boghead Gas Coal and Ironstone, at a depth of 30 fathoms