Pennington Country Park - The Flash
Pennington Country Park – The Flash – From Horrocks Hide, as you look along the centre of the photo what we now call “The Spit” was once a railway line carrying coal from mines to all over the country. Passenger trains also used it.
A Flash is a water-filled hollow formed by subsidence. Pennington Flash is a 70-hectare lake created at the turn of the 20th century by coal mining subsidence, mainly from Bickershaw Colliery. Before the flash the area contained two farms, both of which were abandoned in the early 1900s due to flooding. Once used as a refuse tip the early members of the newly formed Leigh Ornithological Society fought to have the area designated as a Nature Reserve and it was opened as that in 1981 and they still do lots of volunteer work to preserve the area today
Pennington Country Park - The Flash
Pennington Country Park – The Flash – From Horrocks Hide, as you look along the centre of the photo what we now call “The Spit” was once a railway line carrying coal from mines to all over the country. Passenger trains also used it.
A Flash is a water-filled hollow formed by subsidence. Pennington Flash is a 70-hectare lake created at the turn of the 20th century by coal mining subsidence, mainly from Bickershaw Colliery. Before the flash the area contained two farms, both of which were abandoned in the early 1900s due to flooding. Once used as a refuse tip the early members of the newly formed Leigh Ornithological Society fought to have the area designated as a Nature Reserve and it was opened as that in 1981 and they still do lots of volunteer work to preserve the area today