Flooded opencast workings near Gildersome
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Flooded opencast workings near Gildersome by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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Flooded opencast workings near Gildersome
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 18 Apr 2022
This site is currently being developed as an industrial estate. According to the 2014 planning application available online, "The site has previously been part of a larger site used for opencast coal mining in the 1980s, and has been restored to grassland with some tree planting to the boundary". So what we see here is probably a filled quarry and the water may not actually be very deep.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.75084
Longitude
-1.624331