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Sough. A sough (pronounced /saʊ/ or /sʌf/) is an underground channel for draining water. Out of a mine: ideally the bottom of the mine would be higher than the outlet, but where the mine sump is lower, water must be pumped up to the sough. Out of sloping farmland: these are to be found (at least) around the Pennine areas of East Lancashire to ...
53.1846°N 1.7639°W. / 53.1846; -1.7639. Rivers. River Lathkill. Lathkill Dale is the valley of the River Lathkill near Bakewell, Derbyshire in the Peak District of England. The river emerges into the dale from springs below Lathkill Head Cave (or, in wet conditions, from the cave itself). Towards the head of the dale is the side valley Cales ...
In the later years of the industry mines were successfully drained by hydraulic, steam, internal combustion and electric power, but the first successes were achieved by soughs, drainage tunnels driven into flooded veins to allow the water to run off. [40] Dr Rieuwerts has provided a comprehensive gazetteer of the Derbyshire lead mining soughs.
Contents. Great Haigh Sough. The Great Haigh Sough is a tunnel or adit driven under Sir Roger Bradshaigh's estate between 1653 and 1670, to drain his coal and cannel pits in Haigh on the Lancashire Coalfield. The sough 's portal and two metres of tunnel from where it discharges water into the Yellow Brook at Bottling Wood is a scheduled monument .
The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield. [1] Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period over 300 million years ago. The Romans may have been the first to use coal in Lancashire and its shallow seams and outcrops were exploited on a small scale ...
The red box encloses the former Midland Works asbestos factory. [ 1] The Armley asbestos disaster is a public health problem originating in Armley, a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Described by Dr. Geoffrey Tweedale as a "social disaster", it involved the contamination with asbestos dust of an area consisting of around 1,000 houses ...
James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer. He was born in Tunstead, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in Leek, Staffordshire, becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th Century. Born into Peak District, which in those days was extremely isolated, Brindley received little formal education, but was ...
Ledum latifolium, an earlier name for Rhododendron groenlandicum. Labrador tea is a common name for three closely related plant species in the genus Rhododendron as well as a herbal tea made from their leaves. All three species are primarily wetland plants in the heath family. The herbal tea has been a favorite beverage among Athabaskan First ...