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Common Terraces in Methley
©Daniel Masur
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Someone has kindly turned a narrow verge into a communal garden.
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©Glyn Drury
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Teasels were once a commercial crop in West Yorkshire. They were used to 'card' wool fibres, before they were spun.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.3km<br/>Until 1988 you would have been swimming here, as this floodbank marks the original course of the Aire & Calder navigation until the banks burst and flooded the St. Aidan's opencast mine. The tarmac of the former towpath can be seen between the bank and hedgerow toward the right of the picture, though most of it is covered by snow. Ferrybridge power station on the horizon.
©David Pickersgill
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©Ian S
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©Ian S
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©JThomas
Dist:0.4km<br/>Pub at Lower Mickletown.
©Steve Partridge
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©JThomas
Dist:0.5km<br/>This was a stretch of the Aire & Calder Navigation until, in 1988, opencast mining at the St. Aidan's site came too close to the River Aire. A breach opened up and the river and canal poured through, flooding the pit and necessitating the construction of a new stretch of waterway just to the north of the original course.
©David Pickersgill
Dist:0.6km<br/>Lakes and marshes created by mining subsidence during the 20th century, viewed from Pit Lane. Note the two coots standing one-legged on the ice.
©David Pickersgill

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