Description
Nothing remains on the site apart from a spoil heap.
History
1989-1993 Towsbank Coal Company
A standard small mine of the area, it consisted of a building containing a screen and hopper for loading in to road vehicles. There was an office and power house. The 2ft gauge railway ran under a rough road into the adit.
The mine worked the Little Limestone seam.
External Links
Publications (1)
Booth, A.J.; Industrial Railway Society (2001); British Small Mines North; pp. 18-21
Please enable JavaScript to view the map.
Sites within 2km (45)
Blagill (1880) - 72m Blagill - Whimsey Shafts - 239m Blagill Opencuts - 256m Blagill - Level - 301m Fistas Rake East Level - 326m Blagill Burn Shafts - 344m Blagill Smelt Mill - 347m Blagill - Level - 438m Thorngill - 467m Blagill Hush - 478m Thorngill Hush - 483m Blagill - Whimsey Shafts - 486m Blagill - Sunnyside Vein workings - 491m Fistas Rake High Level - 506m Blagill Burn Level - 518m Blagill - Whimsey Shafts - 518m Blagill Low Level - 617m Thorngill West End - 661m Thorngill Low Level - 696m Blagill - 712m Shop Level - 804m Foreshieldburn - Low Level - 910m Blagillfoot Cross Vein Shaft - 1,001m Blagill - Level upon Great Limestone - 1,057m Blagill Green Level - 1,091m Foreshield Burn Shaft - 1,158m Foreshield - 1,162m Thorngill - Slote Vein Level - 1,196m Hudgill Cross Vein Level - 1,206m Foreshield Burn - Slate Sill Level - 1,212m Foreshield Shaft - 1,228m Blagill Cross Vein Shaft - 1,417m Fourdargue - 1,535m Blagill Greenends Level - 1,557m Thorngill - Level below Firestone Sill - 1,583m Bunkerhill Level - 1,658m Thorngill - Slote Vein Firestone Level - 1,660m Whitewell Level - 1,661m Hudgill Burn Mine - Level - 1,766m Thorngill - Slote Vein Middle Level - 1,792m High Spency Croft Level - 1,840m Hudgill Burn Mine - Bingsteads - 1,860m Clargill - 1,900m Clarghyll Drift - 1,953m High Skelgill Level - 1,954m
