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<br/>Heavy plant working on the opencast site

©Bill Henderson

Dist:0.4km north<br/>Power lines by the A639.

©Darren Haddock

©Betty Longbottom

$Dist:0.6km west<br/>This is where the Pontefract to Glasshoughton Cycle Path passes under the M62.$

©Bill Henderson

$SE4323 : The Pontefract to Glasshoughton Cycle Path$

©Bill Henderson

$Dist:0.7km west<br/>This marshy ground in the centre of the Pontefract Race Course is a wild life area.$

©Bill Henderson

Dist:0.7km west<br/>All the usual fast food suspects jostle for custom by the access road to the Junction 32 (formerly Freeport Castleford) shopping outlet and Xscape leisure complex. In the middle distance the M62 heads east towards the mini spaghetti junction with the A1 at Ferrybridge; in the farther distance are the cooling towers of Drax power station (left of picture) and one cooling tower of Eggborough power station (right of picture).

©David Pickersgill

©Bill Henderson

Dist:0.7km west<br/>This is at the western end of the carpark of the B&Q shown in my other shot [[114808]] - at the Junction 32 shopping centre on the M62, Glasshoughton, comprising a large outlet centre, B&Q, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Xscape leisure complex.

©Paul Johnston-Knight

Dist:0.7km west<br/>The new B&Q DIY warehouse store - gigantic - near the Freeport Junction 32 (M62) outlet shopping centre and the Xscape leisure complex near Glasshoughton, Castleford.

©Paul Johnston-Knight

©Betty Longbottom

$SE4422 : Pontefract Park$

©Samuel Meek

$Dist:0.9km west<br/>The indoor real snow ski slope, cinema and leisure complex, almost as much of a landmark as the nearby Ferrybridge power station, has transformed a former colliery and coke works site into a massive visitor destination - though it's less popular with nearby Castleford and Pontefract town centre traders and publicans. Glasshoughton railway station in foreground, Holywell wood in middle distance.$

©David Pickersgill

©Betty Longbottom

$SE4422 : Pontefract Park Boating Lake$

©Bill Henderson

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