Oakenshaw Wildlife Reserve
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Oakenshaw Wildlife Reserve by Oliver Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
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Oakenshaw Wildlife Reserve
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 14 Apr 2007
The old opencast coal mining site was operated by the Banks Mining Group on the site of Hundred Acres Wood. In 1996, the site was restored by Banks and opened by Tony Blair MP as a wildlife reserve, for which it received an Environmental award from County Durham. http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2001/10/17/156924.html . This shows a path along the northern edge of the reserve through a stand of mature Scots pine.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.731083
Longitude
-1.684738