Go to the Main Scottish Cave and Mine Database Search Page

Woodshill [Shaft]

Woodshill, Maryston, Rogersfield, City of Glasgow (Lanarkshire).

Shaft to Kiltongue (Coal seam) marked on 6" Geological Survey map, Lanarkshire VII, 1874. Site immediately south of Rogerfield Road on the north embankment of the M8 motorway.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Woodshill was a farm, north of the row of workers (miners) cottages forming the village of Maryston.

Maryston was a small settlement or farmstead near Easterhouse on the outskirts of Glasgow. It was expanded with the addition of miners' rows in the late 18th century and early 19th century when the Monklands Canal made it easier to transport coal to Glasgow.

Rogersfield Road ran east past Mary's well before turning north to Rogersfield and West Maryston.

The older houses in West Maryston were demolished in the 1940s and 50s. In the 1960s, modern tenement flats were built to rehouse workers evicted from the slums of central Glasgow these were a great improvement but the promised amenities never appeared in the new suburbs which gradually got poorer and poorer devolving into what were effectively new slums.

After years of decline, the Monkland Canal was drained in the late 1970s and the M8 motorway constructed in 1980 over pipes supplying water to Glasgow's industries.

For a while in the 1980s and 90s, Easterhouse came to symbolise the worst of Glasgow with serious problems with drugs and alcohol feulled violence. Parts of the new estates were eventually demolished in the 1990s leaving an expanse of open ground betweem the M8 and refurbished housing to the north. Refurbishment of the remaining houses and the provision of the long awatied facilities in the late 1990s and early 21st century have reduced some of the problems in the area but parts of the cleared areas still look like piles of rubble with nature gradually reclaiming the spoil heaps.

Rogersfield Road is one of these areas with the west end of the road closed by industrial gates.

Hydrographic Feeds: None

Hydrographic Resurgences: None