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Boghead No.1 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
pre-1855
Closed:
pre-1855
Current status of site:
Land returned to agriculture, no surviving surface remains.
Regional overview:
Mines in the Boghead coal

Pit in the Boghead estate, marked as "old shaft" on the 1855 OS map, reaching the Boghead Gas Coal at 9 fathoms. A further shaft, a little to the east, is shown on the 1895 map; this might have been No.7 pit as this number is missing from the list of known Boghead pits.