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Dist:0.2km<br/>Taken from the platform of Hag Fold railway station, overlooking a field & some of the houses on this large council estate.
©C Gallimore
Dist:0.2km<br/>On edge of Hulton estate, site of spoil heaps for Pretoria pit.
©Margaret Clough
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©Peter Whatley
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©Anthony Parkes
Dist:0.3km<br/>Hag Fold Rail Station, near Atherton
©David Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>The bridge on Spa Road, at Hag Fold Railway Station.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>A Wigan Wallgate-Manchester Victoria service is just leaving.
©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.3km<br/>Hag Fold Station is to the right.
©Stephen Armstrong
Dist:0.4km<br/>The disused mine's access & ventilation shafts were covered by concrete caps and surrounded by iron railings to prevent accidents; the concrete cap is still intact under the fallen leaves.
©C Gallimore
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.6km<br/>The heron proved there are fish here, catching & eating one as I watched. There are old mine shafts & remnants of a colliery railway in this wood - the Pretoria Pit was here.
©C Gallimore
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.6km<br/>The foreground & path below clearly show that this wood has a base of coal waste - it was planted on the remnants of a pit & slagheaps.
©C Gallimore
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©Dave Green
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©Ian Greig

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