Brine Well and pond
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Brine Well and pond
Image: © David Medcalf Taken: 16 Aug 2006
I didn't check if the water was salty - probably not, but it is likely that the pond was formed by subsidence following salt extraction. This area has many brine well heads, scattered through the fields, which provided raw material to the ICI chemical factory across the River Wyre. There is a current, very controversial, proposal to create caverns in the salt beds to store natural gas.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.916049
Longitude
-2.978918