Welcome to Paradise
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Welcome to Paradise by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Welcome to Paradise
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 10 Nov 2009
Not looking much like Paradise on this drab November afternoon. Open space on the site of the old Witton Park Ironworks. The name however is not simply a fanciful modern invention. A Paradise Cottage appears on the first large scale OS map from the 1850s.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.667837
Longitude
-1.730346