Scottish shale Scottish shale

Torbane No.3 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
c.1860?
Closed:
c.1875?
Current status of site:
Site opencast and reinstated, not trace of pithead survives

Pit in the Torbane estate to the Upper Parrot Coal.

References

JAMES RUSSEL & SON are now Selling BALL COAL at Pit No. 10, Boghead, at 3s ; and at Pit No. 14 at 3s 8d per ton on the hill; and UPPER PARROT at Pit No. 3, Torbane, at per ton. Also, Good CART GREASE at 8s per cwt., Boghead Colliery, Bathgate.

Falkirk Herald, 25th March 1869