Landscaped pit mound
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Landscaped pit mound
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 16 Apr 2023
Much of this area of The Rock is former coal workings; pits, shafts and many spoil heaps are shown on pre-development maps dated in the 1920s. Almost all trace was wiped away in the 1960s & 1970s when Telford Development Corporation undertook a lot of landscaping work, and the area has since been heavily redeveloped for housing, commercial and retail use. A few remnant spoil heaps survive, including the one on the left of this verge, although I suspect its shape may owe more to the bulldozer of the 1970s than the toil of the colliers in the 1890s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.678896
Longitude
-2.457293