Inside a Shale Bing
Introduction
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Inside a Shale Bing
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 17 Feb 2013
Apart from birches, which seem to thrive, vegetation is slow to colonise this shale bing, but it's getting there. The tracks show that it is popular with cycles, probably both motorbikes and mountain bikes.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.940016
Longitude
-3.469149