Muirkirk Forest
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Muirkirk Forest by Richard Webb as part of the Geograph project.
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Muirkirk Forest
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 7 Jun 2015
The young trees grow on the site of an open cast mine. The land was wooded before the mining and moorland (Burnfoot Moor) before that. The boulders attempt to close off a path to Smallburn to the quadbikes but they just go round. They were about at this time too.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.522106
Longitude
-4.08053