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These so call Cornish Alps are the waste tips from china clay quarrying. The... (more)

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Tipping wastes from slate quarrying was always problematic and resulted in a... (more)

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Part of what used to be a large tip where waste material from the nearby Port... (more)

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The new tip was opened in Willowbrook Road early 2011

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What can you say?

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The tip is now closed and has been grassed over; the brick building, near the... (more)

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The ground in view is shown on OS mapping (1:25 000) as a tip, presumably from... (more)

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Rails were laid to run the rubbish wagons onto the tip site, and as the snout of... (more)

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One of the large spoil tips on the north side of the hill which are remnants of... (more)

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A view of the disused tip which is marked on Ordnance Survey's 1:25,000... (more)

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Tips of waste slate from the Marchlyn Quarry. This quarry was developed in the... (more)

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I did not realise at first, beguiled by the neat, conical tip above Gunheath,... (more)

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The New Rock Colliery was operating here from the nineteenth century, and the... (more)

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The tip is adjacent to the burn and to the Durham Wildlife Trust reserve at... (more)

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A large coal tip to the east of the Ogmore Valley above Blackmill.... (more)

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Looking along the waste tip of the long-disused Coedmawr (Ty'n-y-ddol)... (more)

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Western end of a disused colliery waste tip next to Blaenavon Road, B4248.

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Derelict land at the foot of the hillside shows field walls, but bracken has... (more)

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Looking down Cwm Du from the road to Blaenserchan Colliery near the head of the... (more)

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The 1896 25 inch OS map shows the tip at "Blair Colliery No9 Pit"... (more)

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Tipped slate waste to the south of the quarries of Cilgwyn, looking towards the... (more)

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Extensive slate tips, erroneously marked "Quarry (dis)" on the OS map... (more)

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The entrance to Morehall Tip, just off Manchester Road.

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One of several small tips high up.

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It's so disheartening to see such desecration of our countryside.

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Same scene in the opposite direction from SE1166 : Spoil tips of former Prosperous and Providence Mines.

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For the reverse view, from above the distant spoil, see SE1166 : View over Providence and Prosperous Lead Mines spoil tips.

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A mining spoil tip, known locally as a "bing", from Gateside Colliery... (more)

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These low walls are all that remains of a building below the tips at this... (more)

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An outlying tip belonging to the Cwt-y-bugail slate quarry. Another is on the skyline.

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A promontory of the extensive tips on the north side of Birk Knotts belonging to... (more)

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Fly tipping or has the trampoline been placed here and just deteriorated?

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Grassed over tip in woodland next to remains of small drift mine (out of shot to right).

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One of the many disused tip associated with Blackpool China Clay Pit.

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One of the disused tips associated with Blackpool China Clay pit.

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Extensive spoil tips look down over the access road to Marchlyn Mawr reservoir.... (more)

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Clear signs that this is not a natural hill but a coal tip, viz the vehicle... (more)

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Waste from the blackvein seam of the former Risca Pit. The Sirhowy Valley Walk... (more)

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Colonised by gorse and surrounded by land used as a gallop.

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Tips associated with the lower Nant y Fron pit. The remains of workings in this... (more)

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The mountainous tips in the foreground of this view originate from the several... (more)

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Two coal waste tips at different stages of reclamation near the Ffos-y-fran... (more)

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View up the Corrwg valley showing the spoil heaps or 'tips' once so... (more)

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The waste from a bathroom conversion has been dumped here on a track just off a... (more)

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Contrasting colours between the purple-grey of the waste slate and the bleached... (more)

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