Burdiehouse Lime Works

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Burdiehouse Lime Works (1760-1907)

Served by the Shotts Iron Co.

Description

This was a lime kiln to the west of Mortonhall Pit.

The line works had its own mine and a short internal tramway.

The nearby pit was rail served by a siding from the lines serving the Straiton Oil Works and Pentland Oil Works.

The kiln still exists, but housing developments are reaching ever closer.

Tags

Lime works

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
06/02/2018

Chronology Dates

  /  /1866Straiton Oil Works
Opened by William Taylor and Company. About this date William Baird & Co mines for limestone at Burdiehouse (Burdiehouse Lime Works).
  /  /1921Clippens Company
Burdiehouse Lime Works transferred to the Shotts Iron Co.

Books


Vanished Railways of West Lothian