Old mine ventilation shaft
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Old mine ventilation shaft
Image: © Dave Croker Taken: 21 Mar 2011
One of the many relics from the mining industry that once worked this area. Mike Shaw has made this comment: Horrified to find that you have (presumably) been fooled by a howler in my book Lead Copper and Barytes Mines of Shropshire into believing that the apparent shaft cap in the photo below is mining related. It was the top of a small reservoir and was replaced a few years ago with a lower structure. My only excuse is that it adjoins a small trial mine and someone told me that that was what it was and I never checked the information!. A reprint is due shortly with the howler removed. 13/3/2019
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Image Location
Latitude
52.571841
Longitude
-2.918898