Main street, Cockfield
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The photograph on this page of Main street, Cockfield by Gordon Hatton as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 19 Feb 2012
The main street of this large hilltop village has buildings set back behind wide greens. The village has a largely industrial history with coal mining and quarrying as past employment.