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Hugo Pit [Wemyss Colliery]

Coaltown of Wemyss, NE of Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Mine (Coal), sunk ca. 1873.

Shaft sunk 50 fathoms to the Bowhouse Coal in which extensive longwall workings are contiguous with those of the Lochhead Pit & Mine [site #10986] located >1km to the N. The shaft is now buried below a worked field.

Coal from the Hugo Pit was formerly transported S to the Victoria Pit / West Wemyss through the Hugo Tunnel, the N portal of which is located close to the shaft site [see site #11770]. This was no longer essential following an extension of the mineral railway N to the Lochhead Pit (known then as Wemyss Colliery's Lady Lilian Pit), providing access to the N.B.R methil Branch that allowed coal to be exported from the Methil Docks.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Some brick-built ruins of the original pit building or depot remain standing, albeit heavily overgrown.