Boghead House, Walled Garden
Walled Garden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Boghead House, Walled Garden
Classification Walled Garden (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 100090
Site Number NS96NE 12.02
NGR NS 9563 6788
NGR Description Centred NS 9563 6788
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100090
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Bathgate
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
Boghead
The home of the Robertson-Durham family, demolished 1962, leaving a lodge, with a hood-moulded window, and a roofless rectangular doocot. It was on this estate that Torbanehill cannel coal was first mined by Paraffin Young for extracting mineral oil. Whiteside was the site of Paraffin Young's first oil refinery in 1851.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk