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Taken from Skew Bridge on Wheldon Road, Castleford.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.1km<br/>Castleford is a very low-density town, with lots of semi-rural spaces.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.1km<br/>View of the approach to Skew Bridge on Wheldon Road
©Darren Haddock
Dist:0.1km<br/>Taken from Skew Bridge on Wheldon Road, Castleford.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.1km<br/>Taken at the junction with Wheldon Road.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.1km<br/>Running across the hillside above the railway line.
©Christine Johnstone
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©JThomas
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©JThomas
Dist:0.3km<br/>Between Fryston, the river Aire and the Castleford-York railway line is a narrow strip of grassland underlain by magnesian limestone and displaying the humps and hollows of past quarrying, where characteristic flowers such as cowslips, spotted orchids, scabious and harebells can be found depending on the season. The Domesday Book called this area 'Queldale' and says there was a church here, but no trace remains either on the ground or in later documents. The track passing between the telegraph poles is the course of a mineral railway between Fryston and Wheldale collieries, which closed in 1986 and 1988 respectively.
©David Pickersgill
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©Jayne Claughton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking east from the top of the spoil heap left by Wheldale Colliery, which closed in 1988.
©David Pickersgill
Dist:0.3km<br/>A man wheels his bike from Fryston towards Castleford, approaching the site of Wheldale Colliery washing plant and, beyond, the disused Hickson & Welch chemical works. At the time this picture was taken, a major landscaping scheme had just been announced for area to the south of the river Aire, to include some industry and housing but mainly recreational, including a marina at the old Wheldale Colliery basin.
©David Pickersgill
Dist:0.4km<br/>Left of centre Wheldale Colliery and far left of shot the Hickson & Welsh chemical plant. Shot taken in 1989.
©bernard bradley
Dist:0.4km<br/>Why pay council prices for shifting your rubbish when a fella in a pick-up will take it for half the cost and won't even trouble you with a receipt? Former Wheldale Colliery basin in the background.
©David Pickersgill
Dist:0.4km<br/>Part of the Wheldale-Fryston reclamation and landscaping project, on the south bank of the River Aire. If the fly-tippers and all-year-round caravan club (often one and the same) can be kept out, it should be a tremendous asset to the area.
©David Pickersgill

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