Peat digging near Avalon Farm
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Peat digging near Avalon Farm
Image: © Hugh Venables Taken: 8 Apr 2017
Peat digging is always portrayed as extremely bad environmentally, but here the peat extraction has created a number of new wetland reserves.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.143188
Longitude
-2.762297