Wisp (The)

The Wisp, Greendykes Road, City of Edinburgh.

NGR:	NT 30425 70297
WGS84:	55.92070, -3.11485
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	Not recorded
Altitude:	Not recorded
Geology:	Coal, Limestone Coal Formation - Sedimentary Rock Cycles, Clackmannan Group Type
Tags:	Mine, Shaft, ManMade, Archaeo, CoalMine, Hazard
Registry:	second

Mine Shafts to former coal Mine. Niddrie Pits, No.11. Gas testing essential. Low oxygen & high levels of CO2.

Site of fatal accident. GSG member Peter Ireson died on 17 July 2008 while testing gas meters in the air shaft of the mine.

Air Shaft capped by Coal Authority August 2008. Part of the site has since been built over with a new housing estate.

Alternative Names: Niddrie Pits No 11., The Wisp

Links and Resources:

Edinburghshire IV.13 (Edinburgh; Newton), Publication date: 1895 Revised: 1893.
Discovery & Excavation, vol. 14, 2013, p. 78.
Below, Quarterly Journal of the Shropshire Mining and caving Club, Autumn 2008 (3), p. 15. GSG Member's Fatal Accident in Air Shaft.
GSG Newsletter 135, 20 Aug 2008, pp1, 9-10.

This entry was last updated: 2026-03-29 14:28:52

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