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SJ8147 : Silverdale Country Park: Waste Farm Meadows

taken 9 years ago, near to Alsagers Bank, Staffordshire, England

Silverdale Country Park: Waste Farm Meadows
Silverdale Country Park: Waste Farm Meadows
The Black Bank transmitter mast is in the background.
Silverdale Country Park

Silverdale Country Park was created on the site of former mineworkings. It is now owned by national charity The Land Trust, which manages the site as a public open space for people and wildlife. Day-to-day management of the site is vested in Groundwork West Midlands, which appointed a Ranger in April 2011 to oversee the site.

There are two main areas. The Void is a vast deep bowl with sparse vegetation, a large lake and some smaller pools, which resulted after the cessation of opencast mining from 1987-1994. Waste Farm Meadows is a plateau created from colliery spoil tips, and consists of carefully managed grassland. The two are separated by a band of woodland called Miners Retreat Wood. A pond close to the road adjoining Silverdale village, known as Furnace Pool, is leased by the Silverdale Angling Society. Much of the site of Silverdale Colliery, i.e. the deep pit, in operation from 1830 right up to 1998, is now occupied by a new housing estate called 'Heritage Park', while the old furnace site is now an 'enterprise park' of commercial and light industrial units.

Silverdale Country Park website is at LinkExternal link.


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Geographical Context: Sport, Leisure Grassland Primary Subject: Country Park other tags: Silverdale Country Park Transmitter Mast Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Waste Farm [13] · Waste Farm Meadows [8] · Transmitter Mast [2] Title Clusters: · Silverdale Country Park: Waste Farm Meadows [4] ·
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SJ8147, 117 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Jonathan Hutchins   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 21 March, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 21 March, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 8116 4762 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:1.5321N 2:16.9404W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 8115 4760
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North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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