Reclaimed Industrial Land
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Reclaimed Industrial Land by Mick Garratt as part of the Geograph project.
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Reclaimed Industrial Land
Image: © Mick Garratt Taken: 17 May 2005
This area, once the site of Newport Ironworks, has the potential to become an inner city oasis. Instead it has just been grassed over with a few token trees and provides grazing for travellers' horses. Newport Ironworks provided the cast iron pipes that supplied London with water.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.577392
Longitude
-1.25121