2021
NS9361 : A Cotton Grass Pond
taken 3 years ago, near to Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
A Cotton Grass Pond
This is shown as being a body of water on the maps, but should really be downgraded to a marsh. There were once three reservoirs associated with Crofthead Colliery Pit No 5 situated close to one another here. The largest one is still full of water but both the smaller ones to the West of the track that runs North to Fauldhouse Moor are in a similar largely drained state. Their original outlines are still clear though.
The coalpit, known locally as the Victoria, first appears on an 1890s OS map and shut down in 1923. In the late 1800s and early 1900s there doesn't seem to be much that wasn't mined or quarried around Fauldhouse.
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