New ponds, Newland. You won't find these on the OS Map, or Google Earth. This area was extensively mined with opencast collieries, and clay workings for brick making. It is now being reclaimed, partly by landfill with Wakefield's rubbish. These ponds are approximately on the site of the brickworks shown on the OS map.
New ponds, Newland. You won't find these on the OS Map, or Google Earth. This area was extensively mined with opencast collieries, and clay workings for brick making. It is now being reclaimed, partly by landfill with Wakefield's rubbish. These ponds are approximately on the site of the brickworks shown on the OS map.
A Rapidly Changing Landscape Lagoons on restored opencast workings adjoining a giant landfill site, which, when completed will present an opportunity to create a large area of recreational land to the E of Wakefield. Currently marked as “Opencast Workings” on OS sheet 289 Explorer 1:25000, Revised 2000.
The moat around the Bishops Palace, looking towards the Cathedral from the edge of the moat
The moat around the Bishops Palace, looking towards the Cathedral from the edge of the moat