Manhole in a grassy field
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Manhole in a grassy field
Image: © John M Taken: 13 Jul 2018
Until the 1970s this was the centre of a village of miners' housing for Marsden Pit. With closure of the pit in the 1968 the families were rehoused further inland and the land gifted to the National Trust. The drainage remains to serve a cluster of properties beside the Souter Lighthouse.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.971845
Longitude
-1.36621