The shortest route
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Image: © Jonathan Thacker Taken: 22 Apr 2012
The roadway constructed to transport ironstone from the Nettleton mines takes the shortest route from this point to Holton station where the ironstone was loaded on to railway trucks for transportation to Scunthorpe. If the traffic had been the other way I'm pretty certain a different route would have been taken with a rather more forgiving gradient.
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