Whitehill Colliery Woodland
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Whitehill Colliery Woodland
Image: © Gordon Brown Taken: 5 Feb 2007
This redeveloped woodland area occupies the site of the former Whitehill Colliery. The deep mine colliery of Whitehill 1 and 2 was operational from about 1893 until 1965. At nationalisation in 1947 it employed 394 men and had an annual output of 104,000 tonnes.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.436151
Longitude
-4.322139