The River Leen seen from Woodstock Avenue
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The River Leen seen from Woodstock Avenue by John Sutton as part of the Geograph project.
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The River Leen seen from Woodstock Avenue
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 12 Jul 2011
The houses on Maun Avenue, on the other side of the river, were built on the site of Radford Colliery, which closed in the 1960s. The concrete-post-and-iron-rail fence, which appears in old photographs, is all that remains of the pit.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.962655
Longitude
-1.182625