The village of Burngrange on the South East side of West Lothian was One of the areas many ‘Ghost Villages’. ‘Lost Villages’ that sprang up in the Nineteenth century but are long gone now.

Sadly, the Village of Burngrange is probably best known for its mining disaster. The Burngrange mining disaster happened on the 6th of June, 1923 and killed 15 miners who worked at the pit.