Straiton No.3 pit & No.3 mine

Former parish and county:

Parish of Liberton, Edinburghshire

Local authority:

City of Edinburgh

Ownership:

Clippens Oil Co. Ltd. (1878)

Clippens Oil Co. Ltd. (1893)

Seams worked:

Dunnet Shale

Closed:

No. 3 Mine closed pre-1897, No. 3 Pit abandoned 1900

Current status of site:

Car parking area of retail park

Regional overview:

Mines in the Straiton area

Inclined adit, vertical shaft

Serving Pentland Paraffin Oil Works

Straiton No. 3 Pit and an earlier No. 3 Mine, located close to Straiton Oil Works and Refinery and identified on a mining plan.

See Pentland No. 1 & No. 2 Mines for an overview of shale mining in the Straiton area.

Shale-field: Burdiehouse and Straiton shale-fields.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1894, showing No. 3 Pit as "shaft" and the site of No. 3 Mine as "old shaft".

Location & workings at Straiton No.3 pit & No.3 mine

Detailed maps

Straiton No.3 Pit & No.3 Mine - 25" OS map c.1894, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.3 Pit & No.3 Mine - 25" OS map c.1907, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.3 Pit & No.3 Mine - 1:2,500 OS map c.1955, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.3 Pit & No.3 Mine - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Drawings

Mine plan identifying the workings (British Geological Survey LSP 972 (15231).

Recent images

Site of No. 3 Pit - in centre of image. Looking south west. July 2012.

Site of No. 3 Pit - in centre of image. Looking south east. July 2012.

External references

Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 5913, showing workings in the Dunnet, Broxburn and Fells Shales from Straiton No. 3, 4, 7, 8; Mortonhall No. 9, 10, Pentland No. 1 , 2 and Oakbank, abandoned in 1900.