Limestone shaft
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Limestone shaft
Image: © David Kitching Taken: 12 Apr 2003
This mound is the site of a shaft into the Astbury limestone mines. The workings closed in the early twentieth century. On the mound there are also remains of the base of a tower that carried an aerial ropeway from the Astbury ganister quarry to the railway.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.131572
Longitude
-2.212191