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Whitehill Oil Works (Midlothian)

Former parish and county:
Parish of Lasswade, Edinburghshire
Local authority:
Midlothian
Ownership:
Archibald Hood
Opened:
Built c.1866
Closed:
Presumably dismantled c. 1897
Current status of site:
Housing and agriculture

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Redwood notes that Rosewell Oil Works, Whitehall, Peebles Road, operated between 1864 and 1871.

The works are said to have been the enterprise of William Young, later of the Clippens Oil Company, and co-patentee of the Young & Beilby Retort.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1893 showing the industrial complex at Whitehill.

  • Rateable value by year
      • Date Rateable Value Owner Occupier Notes
      1866 £45 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1867 £40 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood Also Gas Works
      1868 £80 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1869 £100 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1870-75 £115 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1876 £312 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1877 £115 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1879 £80 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1880 £56.7/- Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1881-85 £55 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1886 £150 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1888 £35 Archibald Hood Archibald Hood
      1890 £35 Lothian Coal Company Lothian Coal Company
      1891 £150 Lothian Coal Company Lothian Coal Company
      1892 £20 Lothian Coal Company Lothian Coal Company
      1893-96 £15 Lothian Coal Company Lothian Coal Company
      1897 £5 Lothian Coal Company Lothian Coal Company
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  • Newspaper references

      • BRICKLAYERS Wanted. Apply to William Young, Whitehill Colliery, Lasswade.

      Scotsman, 30th September 1868

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