Top of the shaft at Higher Bal
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The photograph on this page of Top of the shaft at Higher Bal by M Hunter as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © M Hunter Taken: 3 Aug 2008
House at Trewellard in the background. The shaft is grated but it is still a stomach churning experience to look down it as it is several thousand feet deep.