Bathville No.1 pit

Pit in the lands of Bathville to the Mill Coal at 17 fathoms, Armadale Ball Coal at 27 fathoms, and Armadale Main Coal at 32 fathoms. Linked underground to Hopetoun No.9 pit.

Mineral Statistics

List of Mines for 1883 records Bathville No.1 pit, owned by James Wood. manager Arch. Robertson, working the Main, Ball, and Gas Coals by the longwall method, employing 5 on the surface and 25 underground, with no downcast shaft, and upcast shaft 13' x 5.5' and 258 ft deep. It was a non-fiery pit, with a fan 16' x 6'.

List of Mines for 1884 records Bathville No.1 pit, owned by James Wood. manager Arch. Robertson, working the Main, Ball, and Gas Coals by the longwall method, employing 5 on the surface and 19 underground, with an upcast shaft 13' x 5.5' and 192 ft deep. It was a non-fiery pit, with a fan 16' x 6'. Longwall workings in the Colinburn coal were served by a shaft 258 ft. deep

List of Mines for 1885 records Bathville No.1 pit, owned by James Wood. manager David Walker, working the Main, Ball, 3' and Gas Coals by the longwall method, employing 6 on the surface and 17 underground, with an upcast shaft 13' x 5.5' and 192 ft deep. It was a non-fiery pit, with a fan 16' x 6'. Longwall workings in the Colinburn coal were served by a shaft 258 ft. deep

References

Mr. John Watson, coalmaster, Glasgow, who had at colliery at Newarthill, leased Bathville from Mr. James M'Hardy in 1851, and in March, 1852, No. 1 Pit, Bathville Colliery, reached the ironstone

Armadale Past and Present by R. Hynd-Brown, Linlithgowshire Gazette, 1st June 1906

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Bathville coal pit. This name is given to a coalpit on the Bathville estate out of which is taken coal & iron. The machinery is driven by steam of sixty horse power. & the depth of shaft 44 fathom. Also a small dwelling house & smithy attached & occupied by men. On the employment. Its worked by G. F. Watson Coal & Iron Company. and on the property of James McHardy Esq. Glasgow.

Bathville Row. This name applies to a row of houses one storey high & slated. South of Bathville Coal Pit & occupied by colliers on the employment of G. & J. Watson Coal & Iron Co. It is the property of James McHardy Esq. Glasgow

OS Name Book c.1855, OS1/34/9/19

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FATAL PIT ACCIDENT.

On Saturday afternoon, while a collier, named William Taylor, residing at Bathville, near Armadale, was employed at his usual occupation at No. I Pit, Bathville, when a large mass of coal and.stone fell from the roof of the workings crushing him severely, and completely burying him in the debris. When extricated life was quite extinct. Deceased was thirty two years of age and leaves a wife and seven children.

North British Agriculturist, 31st May 1865.