Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Birkenshaw

Birkenshaw, a small estate in the W of Dalserf parish, Lanarkshire, on the river Avon, 2 miles S of Larkhall. An excellent smithy coal is worked here; and a bed of cannel coal, in a vertical position, sunk to 40 fathoms by an eruptive dislocation, is in the near vicinity of the smithy coal.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a small estate"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Dalserf ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty

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