Scottish shale Scottish shale

Heatherfield No.7 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

Coal pit in the lands of Hopetoun Ballencrieff, 31 fathoms deep.