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Murieston Mine

W Calder, Newpark, Campbridge Park, Midlothian (West Lothian).

Quarry, Mine (limestone), 19th Century.

"Quarry and underground workings in the lands of Murieston, working the Burdiehouse limestone. The limestone seam outcropped in an area between the western approach to Murieston house, and the Camps bridge, and seam dipped towards the south. Quarrying seems to have began in the 1820's." [Scottish Shale]

Quarrying began 1820's, mining at a later date. Mining abandoned c.1886, whilst quarrying finished c. 1900. Quarry workings flooded and landscaped as Campbridge Park.

Alternative Names: Murieston Limestone Mine, Camp?

Notes: "A much extended quarry, labelled "Murieston mine" seems to have still been active when mapped in 1893 for the second editon OS maps, and is shown linked by a tramway to a siding on the Caledonian Railway's Midcalder and Cleland line. The 1893 OS shows a branch of tramway serving a shaft a little south of Newpark station, close to the boundary with the Westfield estate and Westfield No.1 pit. The extent of these workings is not know. The site of the shaft is now marked by a fenced-off concrete pad." [Scottish Shale]