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Stoneyside Avenue, MANCHESTER, M28 3PE

The cut opens out into an old mill pond which has fishing perches and is thoroughly fenced off.

Blackleach Country Park is in what used to be an old industrial area of Walkden, half a mile north of the town centre. Over the last decade or so, the area has been transformed from a derelict site, badly polluted from its former industrial use; in particular, by a chemical factory producing dyes with an adjacent chemical waste heap known locally as 'Stink Bomb Hill' because of the strong sulphurous smell that came off it. Trees and bushes have now replaced the derelict buildings. Grass and flowers cover what was the toxic waste heap. The rubbish filled reservoir is now a lake with plenty of fish and water birds. The park was officially designated as a Local Nature Reserve in 2004. http://www.salford.gov.uk/blackleach.htm Salford City Council http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/05/15/friends_blackleach_country_park_feature.shtml BBC Manchester - Park Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackleach_Country_Park Wikipedia

Footpath from Blackleach Country Park, towards Linneyshaw. Blackleach Country Park is in what used to be an old industrial area of Walkden, half a mile north of the town centre. Over the last decade or so, the area has been transformed from a derelict site, badly polluted from its former industrial use; in particular, by a chemical factory producing dyes with an adjacent chemical waste heap known locally as 'Stink Bomb Hill' because of the strong sulphurous smell that came off it. Trees and bushes have now replaced the derelict buildings. Grass and flowers cover what was the toxic waste heap. The rubbish filled reservoir is now a lake with plenty of fish and water birds. The park was officially designated as a Local Nature Reserve in 2004. http://www.salford.gov.uk/blackleach.htm Salford City Council http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/05/15/friends_blackleach_country_park_feature.shtml BBC Manchester - Park Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackleach_Country_Park Wikipedia

Blackleach Country Park is in what used to be an old industrial area of Walkden, half a mile north of the town centre. Over the last decade or so, the area has been transformed from a derelict site, badly polluted from its former industrial use; in particular, by a chemical factory producing dyes with an adjacent chemical waste heap known locally as 'Stink Bomb Hill' because of the strong sulphurous smell that came off it. Trees and bushes have now replaced the derelict buildings. Grass and flowers cover what was the toxic waste heap. The rubbish filled reservoir is now a lake with plenty of fish and water birds. The park was officially designated as a Local Nature Reserve in 2004. http://www.salford.gov.uk/blackleach.htm Salford City Council http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/05/15/friends_blackleach_country_park_feature.shtml BBC Manchester - Park Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackleach_Country_Park Wikipedia

Blackleach Country Park is in what used to be an old industrial area of Walkden, half a mile north of the town centre. Over the last decade or so, the area has been transformed from a derelict site, badly polluted from its former industrial use; in particular, by a chemical factory producing dyes with an adjacent chemical waste heap known locally as 'Stink Bomb Hill' because of the strong sulphurous smell that came off it. Trees and bushes have now replaced the derelict buildings. Grass and flowers cover what was the toxic waste heap. The rubbish filled reservoir is now a lake with plenty of fish and water birds. The park was officially designated as a Local Nature Reserve in 2004. http://www.salford.gov.uk/blackleach.htm Salford City Council http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/05/15/friends_blackleach_country_park_feature.shtml BBC Manchester - Park Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackleach_Country_Park Wikipedia

Blackleach Country Park is in what used to be an old industrial area of Walkden, half a mile north of the town centre. Over the last decade or so, the area has been transformed from a derelict site, badly polluted from its former industrial use; in particular, by a chemical factory producing dyes with an adjacent chemical waste heap known locally as 'Stink Bomb Hill' because of the strong sulphurous smell that came off it. Trees and bushes have now replaced the derelict buildings. Grass and flowers cover what was the toxic waste heap. The rubbish filled reservoir is now a lake with plenty of fish and water birds. The park was officially designated as a Local Nature Reserve in 2004. http://www.salford.gov.uk/blackleach.htm Salford City Council http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/05/15/friends_blackleach_country_park_feature.shtml BBC Manchester - Park Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackleach_Country_Park Wikipedia

This footpath and cycleway through Blackleach Country Park follows the course of the old railway line.

Proof that it was cold!