Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: guessed by David Biggins

Originally uploaded for the Guess Where UK group. This is the River Idle taken from Chain Bridge Lane, near the village of Lound. The view is northwards towards Home Farm, the prominent set of buildings in the middle distance. The area is surrounded by both active and disused sand and gravel extraction operations. The disused, flooded workings are now wetlands forming the Idle Valley Nature Reserve.

The mining village of Arkwright Town near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, experienced serious methane emissions from the ground following closure of the Arkwright Colliery drift mine in 1988. As a result, the entire community was moved into brand new properties, constructed some 200 - 600 metres away. The original village was then demolished and obliterated as part of an opencast coal mining operation in the 1990s designed to remove the old deep mine workings and associated strata which were the source of the methane emissions. This methane vent pipe is one of a pair at this location situated on the restoration backfill of the Arkwright opencast coal mine in order to safely control residual methane emissions from the backfill and surrounding strata.

This is the Near Hearkening Rock, an overhanging outcrop of Upper Devonian Quartz Conglomerate, in High Meadow Woods, an outlier of the Forest of Dean. It is so called because you are supposed to be able hear distant sounds (such as conversations or the horse hooves of an approaching army) which are amplified by the shape of the rock outcrop.