Whitehill Oil Works (Lanarkshire)

Former parish and county:

Parish of New Monkland, Lanarkshire

Local authority:

North Lanarkshire

Ownership:

Clippens Shale Oil Co.

Opened:

Built c. 1866

Closed:

Presumably dismantled c.1876

Current status of site:

Possible site now housing and woodland

Regional overview:

Oil works in North Lanarkshire

Not listed by Redwood.

Listed in Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland for 1878 under Oil Manufacturers in the Airdrie area as "Dickson, Robert, (shale oil), Whitehill."

The precise location of the works is uncertain, but presumably located at Whitehill Colliery, and most likely served by a siding from the Thushbush Incline.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1864, centred the on Whitehills area.

Rateable value by year

Date	Rateable Value	Owner	Occupier	Notes
1866	£48	William Wilson	William Wilson
1867	£80	William Wilson	William Wilson	Minerals
1868	£80	William Wilson	William Wilson	Not working
1869	£80	Robert Wilson	Robert Wilson
1870	£77	William Fraser	George Cunningham
1871	£60	Clippens Shale Oil Company	Clippens Shale Oil Company
1872	£60	Robert Readman	Robert Dickson
1873	£80	Robert Readman	Robert Dickson
1874-75	£80	Robert Readman	Robert Dickson
1876	£54	William Forsyth	William Forsyth	Empty
				NO FURTHER ENTRIES

Location map

Detailed maps

Whitehill Oil Works (Monklands) - 25" OS map c.1898, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Whitehill Oil Works (Monklands) - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Recent images

General view of the Whitehil area, the line of trees marking the route of the Thrashbush incline. Looking north. July 2013.

Newspaper references

ON MONDAY, 21st OCTOBER, AT WHITEHILL COLLIERIES, ROCHSOLES, BY AIRDRIE. HUTCHISON & DIXON will SELL as above, commencing at Half-past 1 o'clock at Pit next Oil Works. The PLANT includes Horizontal Steam Engine, 11 inch cylinder; a Beam Engine, 18 inch cylinder; 2 Steam Boilers, about 580 Yards Permanent Rails, 75 yards Service Rails, 200 Yards Tram Rails, 23 Fathoms 8-inch Pump Pipes, Cart Weighing Machine, Pithead Frames, Pullys, Bell-Cranks, Coal Screens, Stages, Engine Houses, Offices and Smithies, Bricks of Stalks and Buildings, Slates, Pit Cages, Sleepers, quantity of "Maggie" for Oil Distillation, &c. Particulars in Catalogues, now to be had at 7 West Nile Street, Glasgow, on application to the Auctioneers.

Scotsman, 16th October 1872