Five Sisters Bing from the air
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Five Sisters Bing from the air by Thomas Nugent as part of the Geograph project.
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Five Sisters Bing from the air
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 16 May 2019
Thanks to Five Sisters Communities https://westcalder.org/directory/listingpage/five-sisters-bing/ for the following information. An Industrial Heritage Site, they are also known as the Westwood Bing as they are made of spent shale from the Westwood Oil Works which was established during World War II to feed the demand for oil at that time. In the UK, shale bings are only found in West Lothian. Shale bings were always beside oil works - not the mines as it was processed at a crude-oil works first where the crude oil (paraffin) was taken from the deep-mined oil-holding shale. There are 5 impressive bings at this site because the shale was dumped depending on wind direction!
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Image Location
Latitude
55.861252
Longitude
-3.588728