In the Hawth, Crawley
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In the Hawth, Crawley
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 24 Mar 2019
This really is a most remarkable wood, it is closely peppered with a great many minepits to extract iron, of the bell pit type. They are partly filled in now, but still show as pits from one up to around three metres deep, and very closely spaced. As I have found before, it is hard to meaningfully photograph the relief in the almost invariable woodland setting. Presumably the woodland came after the mining and because the tract was ruined for anything else without a great deal of effort.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.109708
Longitude
-0.177185