Back to nature, Cutsyke
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Back to nature, Cutsyke
Image: © David Pickersgill Taken: 26 Aug 2007
Twenty years ago, Flass Lane at Cutsyke ran through a black wasteland of colliery spoil and Carr Beck was hidden in a culvert deep beneath the muck stacks. Now nature has returned in a wonderful example of reclamation: the beck runs through an open valley once more and into this pond, while grass, gorse and maturing woodland covers the reclaimed spoil heaps.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.708259
Longitude
-1.355198