Greenhill Village

[barkie1]

Hi,

Anyone got any info on Greenhill village which was a mining village just outside Cleland on Greenhill road heading into Hareshaw.

I have seen some stuff on a mining website where it details the conditions of the houses but nothing else.

My family worked in the Howmuir or Howemuir mine in Cleland which was owned by the Auchenlea mining company and was situated i believe across from the Station but does anyone know of a site with anymore info about it ?

Would my relatives who did live in Greenhill  be buried at Kirk o'Shotts ?

Thanks

[sancti]

Greenhill Village is now present day Hareshaw not far from Newhouse and Salsburgh

If you search for Hareshaw on www.old-maps.co.uk you will see Greenhill and Spoutscroft shown.  My wife's G/mother was born in Spoutscroft in 1890

[barkie1]

Yes looking at the old maps you can see where the miners cottages were with a water tap in the middle of the rows but today nothing remains of these.

 A lot of my family were living in Greenhill for years a loads were there in 1890, keep seeing the same family names living there for years.

Barclay (my family) others that keep showing up on census records are Black and Francis.

Is Greenhill school still there in Hareshaw ? my great great grandfather had his golden wedding there in 1912.

Needed somewhere like that with 10 kids and over 50 grandchildren.