Harvesting Turf, Hetton le Hill
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Harvesting Turf, Hetton le Hill
Image: © Uncredited Taken: 3 Dec 2003
Approaching Hetton le Hill, I was interested to see this example of harvesting turf. A very large field provided the raw material for football pitches and manicured lawns. And only thirty or forty years ago this was almost certainly a colliery area.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.797136
Longitude
-1.448551