A former open-cast coal mine north of Tranent on the north-east side of the A1, just east of the Prestonpans/Tranent junction, adjacent to the estates of the Earl of Wemyss and March. As of plans in 2010 it was intended that the Blindwells settlement will initially consist of around 1,600 houses, and is part of East Lothian's planned 4,800 house total.[1]
^"New Development: Blindwells". East Lothian Council. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
of places in Scotland "New Development: Blindwells". East Lothian Council. Retrieved 1 June 2021. "Blindwells, East Lothian: Tranent Housing". www.edinburgharchitecture...
1973, de-designated in 1976 after fewer than 100 houses had been built) Blindwells: new settlement under construction between Tranent and Port Seton in East...
It serves students from Cockenzie,Port Seton, Prestonpans,Longniddry, Blindwells and the surrounding areas. A student goes to Preston Lodge High School...
last large deep mine closed in 1961, then in 2000, the opencast mine at Blindwells closed. William Dunbar's poem the Lament for the Makaris includes the...
born at Tobar Caoch (the Blindwell), near Kilconly, Tuam, sometime around 1830. Her grandfather was Martin Kirwan of the Blindwell, once High Sheriff of...
Water, Bilsdean Birns Water Birsley Brae Black Castle Blackcastle Hill Blindwells Bolton, Bolton Parish Church Broxburn Broxmouth Brunton Theatre Burns'...
disappeared from the area; however, open-cast coal extraction continued at Blindwells up to the 1970s. The Great North Road between Edinburgh and London once...
University Press, introducing the Carstairs index of deprivation. Closure of Blindwells opencast coal mining site ends 269 years of coal mining in East Lothian...
just as Falkrik in Old Parish records). She died at her daughter's house Blindwell Cottage, Tranent on the 8 November 1844. Sources: the Old Parish records...
August 1839 born 27 May 1781 probably at Seabegs; died 8 November 1844 at Blindwells Cottage, Tranent and buried in the Churchyard at Clackmannan with her...
Dolphin of Corr 1784: Thomas Mahon of Rindify 1785: Martin Kirwan of Blindwell 1786: Michael Burke of Ballydugan 1789: Hyacinth Daly 1790: Garrett O'Moore...
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