Pool in Old Park
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Pool in Old Park
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 11 Apr 2022
The Old Park area is former mining country, marked on older maps with extensive shafts and spoil tips. This pool, as far as I can tell, occupies the site of coal shaft, and would probably have been landscaped in the 1960s or early 1970s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.683926
Longitude
-2.458381