Path through the wood
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Path through the wood by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Path through the wood
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 2 Jun 2010
The path is the reinstatement of a right of way following opencast mining in the area in the 1980s and 90s. The current OS maps show woodland in different positions from what is actually on the ground, possibly due to following proposals for reinstatement rather than actual survey.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.028979
Longitude
-1.35538