Old mines near Eagle and Child
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Old mines near Eagle and Child
Image: © David Kitching Taken: 17 Mar 2003
The synclinal coalfields of the eastern borderlands of Cheshire have left fascinating remains such as the humps and bumps here. Small mines with shallow shafts or tunnel entrances were worked here in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Image Location
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Latitude
53.195581
Longitude
-2.019418