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Kirk Gate Pit

Windmill, Torryburn, Fife.

NGR:NT 02774 85553
WGS84:56.05292, -3.56265
Length:Not recorded
Vert. Range:Not recorded
Altitude:15 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 woodland.

"pit which was on the crop of the Five Foot Coal and not far from the shoreline just south-east of the Denmark Pit" [Fife Pits]

Alternative Names: Kirkgate Pit

Notes: Church at this locality is the Crombie Old Parish Church, which was the parish church of Crombie before the parishes of Crombie and Torry were united at a date prior to 1623.

Given coordinates derived from BGS GeoIndex. Shaft depicted on OS map of 1896 at an area now resembling an overgrown layby.

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This entry was last updated: 2026-05-28 23:22:43

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