Windyedge Mine
Colliery (Post Medieval)
Site Name Windyedge Mine
Classification Colliery (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 76784
Site Number NT19SW 12
NGR NT 1373 9291
NGR Description NT 1371 9302, 1373 9291 and 1373 9297
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Beath
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
(Location cited as NT1373 9297 - centred on surface mine No. 1). WINDYEDGE Colliery
Location: Lassodie Mill, near Kelty
Previous Owners: Lassodie Coal Company
Types of Coal: House and Steam
Sinking Commenced: 1949
Production Commenced: 1950
Year Closed: 1951
Year Abandoned: 1951
Average Workforce: 26
Peak Workforce: 26
Peak Year: 1950
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 surface mines, No. 1 at NT 1373 9297, and No. 2 at NT 1365 9256
Details in 1948: Output 25 tons per day, 7,000 tons per annum. 20 employees. Electricity bought from Central Electricity Board. Report dated 15-02-1948.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
Field Visit (2 September 1991)
NT19SW 12 1371 9302 and 1373 9291 and 1373 9297
All that can be seen of this mine is a well-developed crowsfoot spoil tip and a collapsed brick-built machinery plinth on the top of the spoil tip.
The mine is depicted on the provisional edition of the OS 6-inch map, (Fifeshire, 1946, sheet xxxiv NW), with a trolley-way dropping down to the railway on the SW; at this point the map is annotated 'mine mouth'. A brick structure with a concrete roof, depicted on the modern map (OS 1:10,000 map, 1970) as a disused shaft, is probably associated with this mine.
(Cleish91 297-8)
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 2 September 1991.
