Waste Land

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Waste Land by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.

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Waste Land

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 17 Feb 2013

I am rather puzzled to know why this piece of land looks like waste ground. None of the historic maps I've looked at shows any industrial use, and it was under cultivation in the 1950s. The tracks are made by off-road motorcyclists.

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Image Location

coordinates on a map icon
Latitude
55.943228
Longitude
-3.455981