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Re: Coalmining houses at Watermill, Clackmannan
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 17 June 15 21:24 BST (UK) »
Page 22 Old Watermill Pit pic (houses in background) Alloa http://www.fnh.natsci.stir.ac.uk/journal/back_issues/vol_33/vol_33_1-142.pdf

Also note Clackmannan Town Hall has a room called Watermill Room.
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Re: Coalmining houses at Watermill, Clackmannan
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 07 October 15 12:38 BST (UK) »
The Clackmannanshire Field Studies Society has been undertaking research into the Colliery Waggonways of Clackmannanshire. When I saw your query I went back over our notes. We had wrongly identified the site of the Watermill Pit. As part of a research project we interviewed an old miner who stated that the older miners always referred to the Craigrie pit as the “Watermill pit”. Unfortunately we missed this information in identifying this pit for our maps - I will correct this. There were several small hamlets associated with mines in the area to the west of Clackmannan Village. In the 1881 Census they are given in the order - Speedwell, Westfield, Craigrie, Watermill, Heatherhouse and Powside. This is likely to be the route that the ennumerator took when recording the returns. Looking at the OS first edition six inch map this suggests that Watermill lay between Craigrie and Heatherhouse. See link - http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=56.1049&lon=-3.7602&layers=5

The 1861 25 inch OS map shows a small tenement (row) of six one room dwellings at the site of the Craigrie pit. http://maps.nls.uk/view/74478623. NS9043791502. This is almost certainly the site of Watermill hamlet. You can e-mail us at cfss2estates@btopenworld.com for more information.

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Re: Coalmining houses at Watermill, Clackmannan
« Reply #11 on: Friday 30 October 15 15:34 GMT (UK) »
Thank you cfss2estates, so Watermill pit, Clackmannan is not north of Craigrie pit as on this illustration, (Two Estates Project  Clackmannanshire Field Studies Society in partnership with The Inner Forth Landscape Initiative:   Clackmannanshire  Colliery Waggonways) but south of Craigrie - between Craigrie and Heatherhouse?

Incorrect location of Watermill Pit?
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Re: Coalmining houses at Watermill, Clackmannan
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 08 November 15 14:34 GMT (UK) »
The small settlement of "Watermill" as recorded on the census returns for 1841-91 lies immediately south of the shaft of the Craigrie or Watermill Pit. See at National Library of Scotland map at:-http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=56.1038&lon=-3.7637&layers=5 and the larger scale map map at:- http://maps.nls.uk/view/74478623

This larger scale map shows the housing clearly and the detail ties up with the information in the census returns.