[13] In 1830s the principal owners of the land were the Duke of Hamilton,[14] Sir Thomas Inglis Cochrane of Murdoston MP, the Right Honourable Dowager Lady Torphichen, and Robert Carrick Buchanan Esquire of Drumpellier.

[17] By the late 1800s the ironworks had grown to the extent that the village slogan was "Shotts lights the world", as gas lamp standards made here were exported throughout the British Empire and beyond.

[18] In the years leading up to World War II there were 22 coal mines in the area, but Northfield Colliery, the last of these, closed in the 1960s.

In its Statement of Special Interest Historic Environment Scotland state that is it is "considered to be one of most significant and important examples of large industrial buildings in later 20th century Britain".

In the 1950s they began developing a wholesale business producing pre-prepared puff pastry, and over the next few decades they became well known for their range of pies, bridies, sausage rolls.

The company also acquired Kirriemuir Gingerbread Ltd. By the 1990s the business had outgrown its Dykehead premises and built a second larger baking facility and headquarters on Torbothie Road, the Hawthorn Bakery, which remains open to this day.

Historically the Shotts Iron Works were between Calderhead, source of the South Calder Water, and Stane.

[31] Shotts parish was originally made up of five villages: Dykehead,[32] Calderside, Stane, Springhill and Torbothie; all growing up around the old coach roads between Glasgow and Edinburgh that expanded and merged during the 18th and 19th centuries following the growth in mining.

Knowhoble Hill, lying beside Teilling Burn, was the site of a dwelling belonging to the Cleland (Clevland) family.