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Wet Earth Colliery

Salford, Italy

Wet Earth Colliery

Wet Earth Colliery was a coal mine located on the Manchester Coalfield, in Clifton, Greater Manchester. The colliery site is now the location of Clifton Country Park. The colliery has a unique place in British coal mining history; apart from being one of the earliest pits in the country, it is the p

lace where engineer James Brindley made water run uphill.

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