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.
Railway Line, Goosehill. Looking from Goosehill Bridge, at the railway line from Wakefield to Normanton.
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.
All Saints parish church, Normanton, West Yorkshire, seen from the southeast. It has one of the oldest altar stones in England, which was discovered during remodelling work concealed in the floor of the church.