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The spoil heap is the grassed feature with gouges at the stream side. The damage... (more)

Tags: ErosionX   type:GeographX   subject:MineX   Mine Spoil Heap   top:Quarrying, MiningX   top:Rivers, Streams, DrainageX   Stream GrooveX   top:UplandsX   top:Waste, Waste ManagementX  

Mapped as both a disused tip and a slag heap, but surely it was one of the spoil... (more)

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A rare survival in the former Yorkshire coalfield - an unlandscaped spoil heap.... (more)

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A rare survival in the former Yorkshire coalfield - an unlandscaped spoil heap.... (more)

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Spoil Tips from the Aber-Pergwm Mine which is located opposite the New Vale of... (more)

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Mapped as both a disused tip and a slag heap, but surely it was one of the spoil... (more)

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The level is just above. The spoil heap is small and obviously little was found... (more)

Tags: Abandoned Copper MineX   CragsX   top:Derelict, DisusedX   FellsX   top:Geological InterestX   Mine Spoil Heap   top:MoorlandX   MountainsX   top:Quarrying, MiningX   top:Rocks, Scree, CliffsX   top:UplandsX   WalkerX  

Bolton Park Lead Mine is located on moorland to the north of the village of... (more)

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The spoil heap is one of many on this area of moorland. This is a small feature... (more)

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There's been both quarrying and mine working on the south side of... (more)

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The spoil heap, now grown over with heather, is at the right side of the image.... (more)

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The damage to the spoil heap is the result of the localised, Swaledale flash... (more)

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The barren material on the central spoil appears to be finely divided. Mined... (more)

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The old copper mine spoil tips are grassed over and only accentuate the rugged... (more)

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Kirkstone Beck drains the valley through which rises the Kirkstone Pass road,... (more)

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The name Faggergill appears on OS maps a number of times but never to name the... (more)

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The Dolly Level is an old access into mine workings on the west side of... (more)

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The amount of spoil is relatively small but it's greater than just the... (more)

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The spoil heaps are above the confluence of the Howden and Bollihope Burns.... (more)

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Piles of loose stone, presumably spoil from nearby mine workings on Conistone Moor.

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The Calvert Mine lies to the west of the upper valley of the River South Tyne,... (more)

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The mine level entrance is clogged with snow - the near-circular patch just to... (more)

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The large spoil heap is being colonised by vegetation very slowly. It offers a... (more)

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The channel cut through the overnight snow has been made by the water flow from... (more)

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The damage to the spoil heap is just part of the result in this location of the... (more)

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The partly grassed-over heap is beside the well-made hill road which has climbed... (more)

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The arched mine opening, sealed with stone, is on a slope where Lodge Sike Mine... (more)

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The extensive spoil heap is on the western side of the Howden Burn, a tributary... (more)

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The adits of the White Mines enter the hillside on the west side of Gasdale at a... (more)

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The large spoils are in the vicinity of the disused Breckensike Level - Brecken... (more)

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Ruined buildings with mine spoil and no doubt other waste heaps. Lingmoor is... (more)

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There's been a good deal of mining in Great Eggleshope but the evidence... (more)

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A car is passing on the A488.

Tags: Disused MineX   type:GeographX   subject:MineX   Mine Spoil HeapsX   top:Quarrying, MiningX   top:Roads, Road TransportX   Scanned NegativeX   top:Woodland, ForestX  

Bounded by a colliery tip to the north and colliery railway embankments to the... (more)

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The hill slope and the area generally have been heavily mined and the rock face... (more)

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Swin Hope is a tributary valley of the river East Allen. The valley bottom can... (more)

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White Force is a waterfall which drops through the hollow of the rocky feature... (more)

Tags: Embedded RocksX   type:GeographX   Mine Spoil Heap   top:Quarrying, MiningX   subject:RockX   Rock CleftX   top:Rocks, Scree, CliffsX   Ruined Dry Stone WallX   top:UplandsX  

The extensive tip, presumably from coal mining, lies to the west of the B4246... (more)

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The scattered bushes and trees in the centre are on spoil heaps around the site... (more)

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Close to the Level 0 adit. Force Crag is on the right, Eel Crag is in cloud, at... (more)

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The unusually named Uzzicar is a farm in the Newlands valley below the hill,... (more)

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Level House is a ruined building in the valley of Hard Level Gill or Flincher... (more)

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This remarkably large, ruined sheepfold lies not far from the source of the... (more)

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Greened slag heap, a reminder of Frickley Colliery.

Tags: Arable FarmlandX   Crop FieldX   Electricity PylonX   top:Energy InfrastructureX   FarmlandX   FieldX   HillsideX   top:LowlandsX   Mine Spoil Heap   PylonX   top:Quarrying, MiningX   Slag HeapX   former:Spoil TipX   top:Waste, Waste ManagementX  

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The road descends to cross the valley stream by a substantial stone bridge then... (more)

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The marsh appears to be impounded by the large mine spoil at the right side of... (more)

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There's little spoil at this site and so it's suspected that the mine... (more)

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There's a desolate yet attractive appearance to the landscape just back,... (more)

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There's a significant area of (for the North Pennines) relatively low level... (more)

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