Knightswood No.10 Pit

Kestrel Road, Knightswood, City of Glasgow (Dumbartonshire).

NGR:	NS 53425 69020
WGS84:	55.89193, -4.34538
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	179 m
Altitude:	29 m
Geology:	Clayband ironstone, Blackband ironstone
Tags:	Mine, Shaft, ManMade, Archaeo, Lost
Registry:	second

Mine (Ironstone), c.1860s

Shaft sunk to Johnstone Clayband Ironstone at depth of 179m. Upper Garscadden blackband ironstone & Garibaldi clayband ironstone seams encountered, & probably worked, at 74m & 100m, respectively. Shaft probably buried under residential graden on NW corner of junction of Kestrel Rd / Hermitage Ave.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Abandoned with only big depicted by 1896 (as shown on 25" OS map). Absent from 1st Ed OS map (1860s).

Knightswood Colliery: 1854-1870 Wilson & Co.; 1875-1885 Summerlee Iron Co.; 1890-1895 James Dunlop & Co.

Links and Resources:

Mindat.org: Knightswood b Colliery, Glasgow City - Link
Abandonment Plan (BGS, AP1055.1): Knightswood No. 9. Plan Of Part Of Knightswood Estate Shewing The Workings In No. 9 Pit Blackband Ironstone - View
BGS (Scotland) map, 1987. 1: 10,560 series NS 56.NW (Solid) - View
OS 25" map, 1898 (revised 1896). Dumbartonshire XXV.7- View
BGS GeoIndex ref: 31916 (Knightswood Ironstone Pit No 10)

This entry was last updated: 2026-03-01 18:15:28

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