Giant Dragline
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Giant Dragline by derek dye as part of the Geograph project.
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Giant Dragline
Image: © derek dye Taken: 11 Sep 2016
Giant dragline at St Aidan's. The site used to be a deep opencast that was flooded when the nearby River Aire was breached filling the pit with millions of gallons of water up to 200ft deep. It has now been filled in and reclaimed and now acts as a nature reserve.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.752965
Longitude
-1.396219