Scottish shale Scottish shale

Trees No.2 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
post 1855
Closed:
by 1895
Current status of site:
Rough grazing
Regional overview:
Mines in the Boghead coal

Pit in the Trees estate, to Armadale Ball Coal at 39 fathoms, Armadale Main Coal at 44 fathoms and Boghead Gas Coal at 60 fathoms. Probably worked by James Russel & Son until c.1875

Mineral Statistics for 1883 records Trees No.2 pit , owned by James Wood, manager Arch. Robertson, working the Main, Ball, and Colinburn Coals by the longwall method, employing 3 on the surface and 14 underground, with a downcast shaft 8.5' and 265 ft deep, with upcast by by Trees No.1 pit.

  • Location of pit, and boundary of the lands of Trees