Scottish shale Scottish shale

Craigbinning (lands)

Parish:
Ecclesmachan, Linlithgowshire, Linlithgow, Linlithgowshire

LINLITHGOWSHIRE - EXTENSIVE COAL AND SHALE FIELD

MINERALS in ESTATE OF CRAIGBINNING in the Parishes of Ecelesmachan and Linlithgow and extending to about 1200 Acres are to be Let on trial lease. The Houstoun Coal Seam has in been worked one or two places on the Estate it is believed that the Lands also contain the Shales which usually underlie that Coal viz :— Fell’s Shale the Broxburn Shale the Dunnet Shale the other lower Shales. Apply to William Thomson 63 Constitution Street Leith, the Proprietor, or to Messrs & Henderson Solicitors Linlithgow

West Lothian Courier, 2nd May 1885