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Torbanehill No.20 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Ownership:
Robert R. Horne & Co

A pit in the lands of Torbanehill. Seemingly one of a dozen or so small scale pits that were worked briefly during the 1880's to extract remaining pockets of Boghead Gas Coal, close to its outcrop.

  • The 1886 List of Mines records Torbanehill No.20 pit to the Torbanehill coal, owned by Robert. R. Horne. Worked by the longwall method employing 5 men on the surface and 10 underground, shared with No.21 pit, having a downcast shaft 4' x 4', 24 fathoms deep and an upcast shaft 4' x 2½' . A non-fiery mine, naturally ventilated, but noted as abandoned.

  • Location of pit, and boundary of the lands of Torbanehill
    Torbanehill 20 1895 Torbanehill 20 aerial 1895 Torbanehill 20 lidar 1895

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