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Vogrie Country Park (adit)

Vogrie Park, Midlothion.

Small cave or possibly mine adit.

Found an adit or cave (hard to tell). It's in Vogrie Country Park between Gorebridge and Pathhead. Park in the main carpark. From the park north boundary where the stream goes under the road. Head downstream 25 m from the under-road culvert, adit is on the LHS bank. Passage is 11m long about 0.7mm high about 1m wide & on the level. Walls are eroded/aged so hard to tell if it's a cave or mine. Very muddy (orange colour). Disturbed mud, so has had previously been visited. [Roger Galloway]

Pretty sure this is the same small tunnel that Jim S. and I looked at in July 2004. In the logbook, I state it was 11 metres long (same map reference) and a bit of a rising and was eventually blocked by a pile of sludge. Definitely the same place. [Alan Jeffreys]

Alternate Names: None recorded.

Notes: All rights to coal from the Vogrie estate were held by the Vogrie Coal Company (later taken over by the Arniston Coal Company).

No mention of a mine adit in this location on the geological survey map but it does match a surface outcrop of a coal seam. Possible either erosion along the coal seam, a mine trial or opportunistic mining (removal of surface coal deposits by locals).