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Garscadden No.1 Pit

Peel Glen, Drumchapel, City of Glasgow (Dumbartonshire).

Mine (ironstone & coal), 19th Century. Site of.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Garscadden Colliery opened c.1866. It worked coal and ironstone and was owned by Merry and Cunningham. It consisted of at least three pits to the west of Garscadden Wood in the north of modern day Drumchapel. The pits were all rail served. [Railscot]

Marked as Ironstone Pit on 6" 1st Ed. OS map, but abandoned site evident on 1899 Ed. Annotated on geol. survey map as No.1 Garscadden, 30 fms to Upper Garscadden (Blackband) Ironstone, 79 to Johnstone Clayband Ironstone, 40 to Lower Garscadden (Blackband) Ironstone, & 137 [250m] to Hurlet Coal' (based on combination of old and new series maps).

Coordinates (from MRA map and OS geolocation tool of geol. survey) places this No.1 shaft at edge of woodland behind 8 Peel Glen Gardens.

Garscadden Mining Village (or Longfaulds) first appears on OS maps in 1899. Nothing now survives apart from the enclosing wall and fence. It was situated immediately W of the Garscadden Burn about 185m SW of Langfaulds farmsteading. The site is now in use as a depot. [Canmore]