Saxon Way
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The photograph on this page of Saxon Way by David Pickersgill as part of the Geograph project.
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Saxon Way
Image: © David Pickersgill Taken: 26 May 2009
An estate of prefabricated houses built around 1970, overlooking Wheldale Colliery, which began going downhill within a decade when the sons of the miners started moving direct from school to the dole queue. Beset by the consequent social problems, by the late 1980s no-one wanted to live there and it was demolished in the early 1990s.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.727795
Longitude
-1.328071