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Post industrial landscape
by Philip Halling
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In the past this land at Ruardean Woodside was a coalmine. This post industrial... (more)
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Houses at Ruardean Woodside
by Philip Halling
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This is a post-industrial landscape, this was a former site of a coalmine.... (more)
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Post-industrial site, east of Newton Hill
by Christine Johnstone
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The area of rough ground is shown as a square enclosure on the large-scale OS... (more)
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Silver birch in the valley of Stanhope Burn
by Christine Johnstone
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Once this valley was full of industry - quarries, lead workings, a smelting... (more)
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Post-industrial open space, Broughton Moor
by Christine Johnstone
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The large-scale OS map surveyed in 1899 shows a tramway feeding a spoil heap in... (more)
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View from Anchor Lane, Dundee
by Chris Allen
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At this point I ran out of time to explore further and had to dive into Verdant... (more)
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The southern end of the Greenfoot Bleach Works site
by Christine Johnstone
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Set up by Joseph Beckett to bleach locally woven linen, some time before the... (more)
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"Make your way around the playing fields"
by Christine Johnstone
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Part of the Outwood walk, from Richard Bell's book 'Walks in Robin... (more)
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Footpath junction, Flimby Great Wood
by Christine Johnstone
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Both public footpaths are on the route of industrial railways. The large-scale... (more)
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Hillclimb course off Steamboat Way
by Stephen Craven
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Totally unofficial, I am sure. The 'hill' is part of a much larger... (more)
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Flass Lane
by Stephen Craven
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The 'lane' (now a footpath) is a long-standing route, but the area... (more)
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Canalside flats, Shot Tower Close, Chester
by Christine Johnstone
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Industry has been replaced with canalside housing.
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Shot tower and Walkers Apartments, Chester
by Christine Johnstone
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Site of demolished chimney interpreted, Castle Espie
by Christine Johnstone
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This land is on the western edge of Strangford Lough. In the 1800s and early... (more)
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A varied roofscape in Leeds
by Stephen Craven
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Viewed from a railway footbridge in Armley, the foreground is occupied by the... (more)
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Demolished industrial site, off Goscote Lane
by Christine Johnstone
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In the 1800s there were canal arms and old mining shafts mapped here, but since... (more)
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Winter tree on the Greenfoot Bleach Works site
by Christine Johnstone
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Joseph Beckett set up the works to bleach locally woven linen, some time before... (more)
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Former Cyffty lead mine and mill
by Christopher Hall
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This is the site of an old lead mine in the Gwydir Forest which closed after... (more)
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![TR3554 : Changing the landscape at Betteshanger [Country] Park by Christine Johnstone](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/10/80/7108051_7778c807_120x120.jpg)
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Changing the landscape at Betteshanger [Country] Park
by Christine Johnstone
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This site was originally Foulmead Marsh, and then the spoil heap for... (more)
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Forestry at East Benhar
by M J Richardson
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A century earlier this was a mining landscape. See Ian Dodd's description... (more)
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Former industrial area, on the north bank of Alverthorpe Beck
by Christine Johnstone
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The 1850 OS map shows Smithson's tramroad running along the field edge... (more)
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"Continue on the ... cycleway and footpath ahead"
by Christine Johnstone
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Part of the Outwood walk, from Richard Bell's book 'Walks in Robin... (more)
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Drain by the Wakefield Way, Lofthouse Colliery nature park
by Christine Johnstone
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Tinged with orange which indicates pollution from mine workings. On the route of... (more)
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"A broad path ... around the perimeter of the park"
by Christine Johnstone
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Part of the Outwood walk, from Richard Bell's book 'Walks in Robin... (more)
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"Keep to the broad track around the pond"
by Christine Johnstone
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Part of the Outwood walk, from Richard Bell's book 'Walks in Robin... (more)
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"Through to a triangular duck pond"
by Christine Johnstone
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Part of the Outwood walk, from Richard Bell's book 'Walks in Robin... (more)
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Route of a mineral line, Broughton Moor
by Christine Johnstone
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There is no railway shown here on the large-scale OS map surveyed in 1864-5. By... (more)
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Airton Mill's former mill pond
by Christine Johnstone
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The tall dry grass marks the site of Airton Mill's mill pond. There was a... (more)
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Weir on former mill pond, Airton
by Christine Johnstone
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The tall dry grass marks the site of Airton Mill's mill pond. There was a... (more)
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Remains of a South Garesfield colliery spoil heap
by Christine Johnstone
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On the south side of a repurposed railway line between the Tyne valley and... (more)
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Llwybr trwy'r coed / Path through the trees, New Brighton
by Christine Johnstone
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A former mineral railway serving the Minera lead mines.
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Olion mwyngloddio plwm / Traces of lead mining, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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A square of stones on the north side of the former mineral railway, Minera Country Park.
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Ategweithiau pont reilffordd / Railway bridge abutments, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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Part of the network at Minera Lime Works. One mineral railway crossed over another here.
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Coed yn cytrefu'r odyn / Trees colonising the kiln, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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This kiln was built in 1868 and processed limestone at the Minera Lime Works.... (more)
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Mynedfa i odyn Hoffman / An entrance to the Hoffman kiln, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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Coal was brought by rail to the topside of the kiln. After the firing lime was... (more)
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Newidiodd yr nant yn fawr / Much-altered stream, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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At the downstream edge of a large limestone quarry which closed in 1994 and is now a SSSI.
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Chwarel galchfaen segur / Disused limestone quarry, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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This quarry once produced 200,000 tonnes of lime a year. It closed in 1994 and... (more)
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Hen chwarel galchfaen / Old limestone quarry, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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This was once Lester's Lime Works, on the north side of the Clywedog... (more)
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Odyn Hoffman / Hoffman kiln, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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The south-west side. The path alongside was once a railway serving the kiln.... (more)
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Odynau calch / Lime kilns, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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Minera Lime Works was once the largest producer of lime in North Wales [200,000... (more)
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Hen bont reilffordd / Old railway bridge, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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Built to serve the Minera Lime Works.
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Yr hen reilffordd / The old railway, Minera Country Park
by Christine Johnstone
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Concrete sleepers along one of the former railway lines serving Minera Lead Mines.
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Hen dramffordd a wal / Former tramway and wall, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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Once part of the Minera lead mines, now within the Minera Country Park.
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Arwyddbost ar hen dramffordd / Signpost on an old tramway, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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The lower signposted track was built before 1872 as part of the Minera lead... (more)
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Llwybr ar hen dramffordd / Path on old tramway, Minera
by Christine Johnstone
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This tramway was built between 1872 and 1898, as part of the Minera Lead Mines... (more)
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![SJ2750 : Pyllau plwm y Mwynglawdd / Minera lead mines [5] by Christine Johnstone](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/93/83/7938337_69101a35_120x120.jpg)
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Pyllau plwm y Mwynglawdd / Minera lead mines [5]
by Christine Johnstone
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The track beside the Meadow Shaft engine house is the route of one of the many... (more)
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Grassland on the site of Parkhill Colliery
by Christine Johnstone
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Before the mid 1980s, this would have been a view of the buildings and railway... (more)
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Stone pier, Castle Espie
by Christine Johnstone
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On the western edge of Strangford Lough. The pier was built in the 1860s to... (more)
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Sea wall, Castle Espie
by Christine Johnstone
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On the western edge of Strangford Lough. The sea wall was built in the 1860s so... (more)
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Path to Daw Lane, Painthorpe
by Christine Johnstone
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The large-scale OS map surveyed in 181 shows a mineral line on this route,... (more)
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