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Lochgelly
Brickworks (19th Century), Colliery (19th Century)
Site Name Lochgelly
Classification Brickworks (19th Century), Colliery (19th Century)
Canmore ID 79313
Site Number NT19SE 41
NGR NT 192 942
NGR Description Centred NT 192 942
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/79313
- Council Fife
- Parish Auchterderran
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
Field Visit (18 September 1991)
NT19SE 41 centred 192 942
Nothing is now visible of a brickworks, clay pits, brick fields and kilns depicted on the 1st edition of the 6-inch map (Fife & Kinross, 1856, sheet 31), in an area which has now reverted to pasture.
At the N end of the field (NT 1922 9450, Cleish91 193) a spoil tip marks the site of a coal pit and engine house, which are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (ibid) The surface of the tip is scarred with coal picking pits. Nothing is visible of the tramroad that connected the pit to Lochgelly Ironworks.
(Cleish 91 192-7)
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 18 September 1991.
