Twechar Colliery Pit No1
Twechar Colliery Pit No1 is a mine in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Twechar Colliery Pit No1 is situated nearby to Old Pit Bing, as well as near the ruins Antonine Wall.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bar Hill Fort and Broadwood Stadium.
Bar Hill Fort
Archaeological site
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 CE. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill. Bar Hill Fort is situated 2,500 feet east of Twechar Colliery Pit No1.
Broadwood Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Chris Upson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in the Westfield area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical, as well as Cumbernauld Colts of the Scottish Lowland Football League, and Rangers W.F.C of the Scottish Women's Premier League. Broadwood Stadium is situated 2 miles southeast of Twechar Colliery Pit No1.
Croy railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Croy railway station serves the village of Croy – as well as the nearby town of Kilsyth and parts of Cumbernauld – in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line, 11+1⁄2 miles northeast of Glasgow Queen Street. Croy railway station is situated 2 miles east of Twechar Colliery Pit No1.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Twechar and Queenzieburn.
Twechar
Village
Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Twechar is a small former mining village historically in Dunbartonshire and administered by the council area of East Dunbartonshire, Scotland close to the boundary with North Lanarkshire.
Queenzieburn
Village
Photo: Jim Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Queenzieburn is a small settlement in the historic county of Stirlingshire and the Council Area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its estimated population is 520.
Kilsyth
Photo: Excalibur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilsyth is a town on Clydeside, historically part of Lanarkshire, in the Central Belt of Scotland. It's 15 miles northeast of Glasgow near the watershed between the Clyde and Forth river catchments, at a point where the natural lowland routes become pinched between the Lanarkshire moors, the abrupt Campsie Fells, and sucking bogs.
Twechar Colliery Pit No1
- Type: Mine
- Categories: historic site and industry
- Location: East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.96088° or 55° 57′ 39″ northLongitude
-4.08353° or 4° 5′ 1″ westOpen location code
9C7QXW68+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 4769721115OpenStreetMap feature
historic=mine
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Old Pit Bing and Antonine Wall.
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