Earth's eye: Wyken Pool, Coventry
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Earth's eye: Wyken Pool, Coventry by A J Paxton as part of the Geograph project.
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Earth's eye: Wyken Pool, Coventry
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 26 Dec 2022
"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." Henry Thoreau, 'Walden' (see 'Walden' at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm ). Perhaps that's true even when the lake is the result of subsidence caused by coal mining, as at Wyken Pool in Coventry. Perhaps even when the lake is sandwiched between the roaring M6 motorway Image] and some of the city's most deprived neighbourhoods Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.446292
Longitude
-1.469261