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Straiton Oil Works No.3 Pit

Straiton, Loanhead, Midlothian.

Mine (Shale, later Ironstone?), late 19th Century.

Associated with Straiton Oil Works, shaft site now buried below car park of Straiton Retail Park. The 1955 NG map shows the shaft site as being on grounds of an Ironstone Mine, and the abandonment plan for the Clippens Pit suggests that the pit may connect with limestone workings.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Pit shown as 'Shaft' on 1894 OS map. Name shown on Abandonment Plan for Clippens Pit.

"... the site was operated by the Straiton Oil Company between 1877 and 1882, and then became the property of the Clippens Oil Company... Under ownership of the Clippens Oil Company Straiton Oil Works and Refinery were worked in association with the adjacent Pentland Oil Works. Oil production was suspended in 1897 as the consequence of a long and complex legal case with the Edinburgh and District Water Trust which was not concluded until 1907. By that time the works had fallen derelict and never returned to production." [Scottish Shale]