Victoria Pit [Wemyss Colliery]

Site of shaft that was treated in 1964. This accessed vast room-and-pillar & longwall workings in the Dysart Main & Bowhouse coal seams which connect with Lochhead Colliery [site #10986] ca. 2km to the N, and in-part extend out under the Firth of Forth S of the pit. The mostly grid-in-plan Main Dysart Coal workings are particularly extensive & also join with those of Michael Colliery to the NE [site #10547] & the Lady Pit [site #11773] to the near-immediate E. See mine plans in refs, which show a cross-cut level connecting the neighbouring Victoria & Lady pits, and further room-and-pillar workings in the Branxton Coal.

Coal was exported from the Victoria Pit by ship from the adjacent West Wemyss Dock until 1915, after which the coal was sent to the Hugo Pit / Depot [Site #11771] for stockpiling via the the adjacent Hugo Tunnel [site #3073]. Eventually the coal worked in the Victoria Pit workings was brought to surface at the Lochhead Colliery.

Links and Resources:

Fife Pits: Victoria Pit, (Wemyss No.7) West Wemyss. Link
Mine Plan (MRA, S389): Lochhead, Victoria And Duncan. Dysart Main Coal workings. 1959. View
Mine Plan (MRA, S3804): Wemyss. Bowhouse. 1901. View
Mine Plan (MRA, S4323): Lochhead, Wemyss (Hugo), Lady, Mill, Victoria, Old Pits. Bowhouse & Dysart Main Coal workings. 1872. View
Mine Plan (MRA, S4277): Wemyss/ Lady & Victoria. Bowhouse Coal workings. 1872. View
Mine Plan (MRA, 16317): Lochhead/ Lady/ Victoria. Branxton, Bowhouse Coal workings. 1900. View
Mine Plan (MRA, S2274): Lochhead. Bowhouse, Earl Davids Parrot, Branxton Coal workings. 1902. View
Mine Plan (MRA, S36): Lochhead. Branxton Coal workings. 1949. View
OS 6" map, 1856. Fife Sheet 32. View
OS 25" map, 1896. Fifeshire XXXVI.2. View
OS / Geological Survey 6" map, 1931. Fife & Kinross-shire XXXVI.NW. View
MRA ref: 332694-012 (Victoria Shaft)
Site 3073: Hugo Tunnel (S Portal)
Site 10547: Michael Colliery.
Site 10986: Lochhead Pit (Wemyss)
Site 11771: Hugo Pit (Wemyss Colliery)
Site 11773: Lady Pit (Wemyss Colliery)

This entry was last updated: 2026-09-22 14:00:04

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NGR:	NT 32178 94690
WGS84:	56.14008, -3.09298
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	133 m
Altitude:	10 m
Geology:	Scottish Lower Coal Measures Fm - coal
Tags:	Mine, Shaft, ManMade, Lost, CoalMine
Registry:	second

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