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Philpstoun, Oil-shale Works, Bing
Shale Bing (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Philpstoun, Oil-shale Works, Bing
Classification Shale Bing (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Philpstoun Muir
Canmore ID 49165
Site Number NT07NE 47.01
NGR NT 0560 7660
NGR Description Centred NT 0560 7660
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49165
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Abercorn (West Lothian)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
NT07NE 47.01 0560 7660
Only one shale bing (spoil heap) is depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Linlithgowshire, 1897, sheet vi) to the N of the Union Canal (NT07NE 57.00). The bing occupies an area of about 7.33 hecatres.
By the date of the OS Revision, c.1915, the 25-inch map shows that an additional spoil heap of about 9.71 hectares with tramway running on the surface had been placed to the S of the canal on the site of the former Philipstoun Loch. Later editions of the OS maps show that the works had been demolished and most of the buildings removed leaving only the spoil heaps and the course of the mineral railway.
The current OS 1:2500 scale digital map depicts the surviving bings.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2005
