Ruins in Dipton Woods
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Ruins in Dipton Woods
Image: © Robert Graham Taken: 9 Mar 2012
There are many ruined buildings and other remains in these woods, all from the intensive coal mining which was carried on here in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This house probably stood next to a waggonway and served it in some way or other.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.886811
Longitude
-1.760531