Trough at the foot of Cow Lane, Midgley
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Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 29 Jan 2016
The internal walls are covered by luxuriant vegetation, including hart's tongue fern. On the hillside behind, a stream comes down and sinks into the ground. Presumably the same flow emerges into the trough as a spring.