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Brown's Pit Kirk Gate Pit Ayr Pit Bank Sink Crombie Kirk Sink Loanhead Pit Shore Sink Myne Pit Bankhead No.2 Pit Torryburn No.1 Pit Black Hill Sink Bankhead No.1 Pit Whyte's Pit Torryburn No.2 Pit Crombie Park Pit Bankhead No.3 Pit Stair Pit [Torryburn] Parkhead Pit Craigflower Pit
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Windmill, Torryburn, Fife.
| NGR: | NT 02710 85600 |
| WGS84: | 56.05333, -3.56370 |
| Length: | Not recorded |
| Vert. Range: | Not recorded |
| Altitude: | 7 m |
| Geology: | Limestone Coal Formation - coal |
| Tags: | Mine, Shaft, ManMade, Archaeo, Lost, CoalMine |
| Registry: | second |
Mine (Coal), 18th or 19th cent. Probably a bell pit with shaft now buried below rough grassland.
"lay on the crop of the Five Foot Coal close to the shoreline at Torry Bay. Denmark Pit was just to the north-west of the church ruins." [Fife Pits]
Alternative Names: None recorded.
Notes: The name could potentially relate to Anne of Denmark, James VI's queen consort who was granted the Lordship of Dunfermline and subsequently transformed the old Dunfermline Abbey guesthouse into an imposing royal residence. Names linked to Anne are relatively common in West Fife. [I. Greig]
Given coordinates derived from BGS GeoIndex.
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This entry was last updated: 2026-05-28 22:57:05
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