Scottish shale Scottish shale

Mid Breich (lands)

Alternative names:
Middle Breich
Parish:
Livingston, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Seams worked:
Fells Shale

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Leasee Owner Start date End date Full record
Oakbank Oil Co. Ltd. Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd. 1927 1944 183755 (page 228)

Owned by Earl of Hopeton

minerals leased to Thornton

  • Related file records
    • 227133 - Mid Breich Farm, Insurance Plan - Scottish Oils Limited Undated insurance plan for Mid Breich Farm. Scale ca. 1:250. File Reference number: 10/P/046.
    • 143284 - Minute of Lease between the Pumpherston Oil Company Ltd and the Oakbank Oil Company Ltd, Of Shale in the Lands of Mid Breich and Wester Breich. 1927. - Two copies of Minute of Lease between the Pumpherston Oil Company Ltd and the Oakbank Oil Company Ltd, Of Shale in the Lands of Mid Breich and Wester Breich. Dated 1st September 1927. Type written.
    • 143522 - Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd. J. Findlay - Mid Breich Farm - Let of Mid Breich Farm to Mr John Findlay. Collection of correspondence between the company and John Findlay, who leased the farm from 1939, and later with his son John Findlay Jr. A large map at a rough scale of 1:2500 accompanies the file. Titled Plan of Mid Breich Farm, it has been amended by hand many times and shows the property of 112 acres or thereby in much detail. Two further plans are included in the correspondence, both to the same scale. One, from 1959,shows the lease of the former recreation ground at Mid Breich to the farmer. The other, titled Plan referred to in letter dated 16th May 1963 to Mr John Findlay, Mid Breich Farm shows in red the ground and buildings at Breich Pit that the farmer is now permitted to use at no cost. Other letters coverthe permission granted to the Seafield and District Angling Club to fish the Almond at Seafield, the state of the farm buildings and the installation of land drains in the former recreation ground.
    • 143889 - Disposition by The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited in favour of David Finlayson, trading as Scottish Plan Hirers. - Disposition by The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited in favour of David Finlayson, trading as Scottish Plan Hirers. Subject - Two plots or areas of ground, extending together to 8.922 acres, part of the Lands of Mid Breich, West Calder. Dated 1965. Details the sale, by The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, of the plot of ground lying on the northwest side of the public road leading from Blackburn to Mid Calder to David Finlayson for the sum of £250.
    • 143890 - Disposition by The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited in favour of Walter Lewis. - Disposition by The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited in favour of Walter Lewis. Subjects - Two plots or areas of ground part of the lands of Mid Breich, West Calder. Dated 1964. Details the sale, by The Pumpherston Oil Company Limited, of plot of ground lying on the north west side of the public road leading from Blackburn to Mid Calder to Walter Lewis for the sum of £1500. Includes a plan of the area referred to in the disposition. Plot 1 edged in red 13.216 acres Plot 2 edged in green 2.183 acres. Scale of plan is 1/2500.