Crompton Moor – walkers take care

I have been asked to circulate this by a regular user of the Moor.

During the last few weeks I have noticed a increasing number of mine workings coming to light along the old tramway at the coal limits at the rear of the masts.

This tramway runs along the route of Pylon ZPA 41 to ZPA 42. It runs to Huddersfield Road under the cables. If you walk on this route it’s advisable to keep to the path and any dogs under control.

These workings are shafts, and are 3ft to 6ft wide and range from a sink up to 6ft. There is one about 100ft or so on your right as you walk down towards Huddersfield Road, its flooded I nearly lost one of my dogs in it this afternoon.

I have no way yet of knowing how deep the water is I will wait until it starts to dry out and see. The water stinks like aluminium sulphates, but this shaft was not there last year.

I will log them all over the next few weeks and report them to OMBC and the Coal Authority

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