Grangemouth Colliery

So, today I went out on my bike on the Bothkennar Carse, it is nice for cycling, very flat, if you know what I mean. Today it is mainly farmed, but it hides an industrial heritage.


View down the Forth from Bothkennar, to the left Longannet, Fife, to the right Grangemouth Docks, and to the extreme right, the confluence of the Rivers Carron and Forth.

Back in the day, the part of the carse just across the Carron from Grangemouth was alive with industry, housing not only several mines and a brickwork, but its own mineral railway which was not connected to the main network.


South Bothkennar Carse 1896 Ordnance Survey Map c/o NLS Maps.

The thing is you have to go off the beaten track to find these forgotten remnants of Central Scotland's Industrial past, and so it was when I went looking for the above Barony Pit No. 3 of the Grangemouth Coal Company. The biggest give away was the bing, nothing like Broxburn, but it was there.

Eventually, I found the last (above the ground anyway) remnants of the coal mine, they seem to correspond with the Pumping Shaft on the map.

Looking North-West


Looking South-West


Looking South-East


Looking North-East



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