Oak Pits Oil Works

Former parish and county:

Parish of Mold, County of Flint, Wales.

Local authority:

Flint

Ownership:

Welsh Cannel Oil Co. Ltd.

Opened:

pre 1868

Closed:

post 1868

Current status of site:

Site substantially landscaped and now major industrial site.

Slater's trade directory of 1868 lists Welsh Coal & Mineral Oil Co. Ltd., Oak Pits Colliery, Mold under "Mineral Oil Manufacturers". No other evidence of oil production has yet been found. The first edition (1871) OS map shows the pithead buildings of Oak Pits colliery, and a kiln, probably associated with brick production. Other unlabeled structures might represent oil retorts.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1871, showing Oak Pits colliery and its vicinity.

Number of retorts: unknown.

Location map

Detailed maps

Oak Pits Oil Works - 6" OS map c.1871, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Oak Pits Oil Works - 6" OS map c.1898, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Oak Pits Oil Works - 25" OS map c.1912, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Oak Pits Oil Works - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Newspaper references

From Slater's Trade Directory, 1868