2015

SJ7259 : Sandbach Flashes: Salt Pan

taken 8 years ago, near to Warmingham, Cheshire East, England

Sandbach Flashes: Salt Pan
Sandbach Flashes: Salt Pan
The historic salt industry in south Cheshire began as the small-scale exploitation of natural brine springs and eventually led to industrial scale brine pumping. The paractice was particularly common from the 1920s to 1970s in the area around Middlewich and Sandbach, where brine was pumped out of disused salt mine workings. This led to the eventual collapse of the large underground chambers. The resulting subsidence at ground level formed water-filled depressions known as "flashes", which attract wading birds more often found in coastal saltmarshes and the like. The phenomenon (without the saline water) is also found in coal mining areas: see the similar Shared Description for Wigan Flashes. For a fuller explanation and maps, see LinkExternal link

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Geographical Context: Farm, Fishery, Market Gardening Lakes, Wetland, Bog Primary Subject: Lake other tags: Sandbach Flashes Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Sandbach Flashes [16] · Salt [6] Title Clusters: · Sandbach Flashes: Salt Pan [2] ·
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SJ7259, 54 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Jonathan Hutchins   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 8 November, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 8 November, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 7254 5961 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:7.9761N 2:24.7129W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 72469 59570
View Direction
East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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