2021

NS9555 : View from Coal Mine Entrance near Wilsontown

taken 3 years ago, near to Wilsontown, South Lanarkshire, Scotland

View from Coal Mine Entrance near Wilsontown
View from Coal Mine Entrance near Wilsontown
It is a very industrial rural landscape round here. An early ironworks operated from the 1780s to the 1840s, altering the landscape dramatically, and for the next hundred or so years coal mining took place in the same area.

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Geographical Context: Quarrying, Mining Derelict, Disused Primary Subject: Coal Mine
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NS9555, 36 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Dodds   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 20 February, 2021   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 21 February, 2021
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 954 556 [100m precision]
WGS84: 55:46.9417N 3:40.1636W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 954 556
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WEST (about 270 degrees)
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