Batonrig Colliery
Colliery (19th Century), Miners Row(S) (19th Century)
Site Name Batonrig Colliery
Classification Colliery (19th Century), Miners Row(S) (19th Century)
Canmore ID 82502
Site Number NS86SE 37
NGR NS 856 612
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/82502
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Shotts (Motherwell)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Motherwell
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (10 September 1992)
NS86SE 37 856 612
The remains of this coal mine are situated on the N side of HM Prison Shotts. There is no trace of the buildings shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire 1896-97, sheet xiii) and the southern half of the bing (formed by three conveyor-belt lines) has been removed (CSW 4073). The revised edition of OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire 1921, sheet xiii, resurveyed in 1910) marks the mine as 'Batonrig Colliery (Pit No. 1)'. The 2nd edition (ibid) also shows two miners rows to the E and ESE of the bing (CSW 4074), which are marked on the 1921 revision as 'Springbank Row' and 'Springbank Place', respectively, neither of which survives. A railway line, shown on the 2nd edition map (ibid) (and no longer visible), continued to the W of the bing and bifurcated to serve Mainbank Colliery (NS86SE 36; CSW 4071) Air shafts shown on the 2nd edition (CSW 4070, 4072) (ibid), to the W and NW of the bing, are no longer visible, and an old shaft (CSW 4333), shown on the 1910 revision (ibid) to the W of the bing, has been removed.
(CSW 4070, 4072-74, 4333)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC), 10 September 1992
