Davyhulme Millennium Nature Reserve from the air
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Davyhulme Millennium Nature Reserve from the air
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 17 Jul 2017
This now wooded part of the sprawling Davyhulme sewage works complex by the Manchester Ship Canal was closed and converted to a nature reserve in 2000. This was as a direct result of a 1998 European Community Directive which prohibited the dumping of sewage sludge at sea.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.460487
Longitude
-2.384774