🦎 St Aidan's

United Kingdom · Europe · Nature Reserve · 53.75°N, 1.41°W

St Aidan's is a 355-hectare (880-acre) nature park located between Leeds and Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. The land was formerly an opencast coal mining area that was flooded in 1988, after the riverbank collapsed. Repairs and remediation required their own Act of Parliament to allow the necessary works to go ahead. Mining ceased at St Aidan's in 2002.

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Quick facts

Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Protection type	🦎 Nature Reserve
Coordinates (approx.)	53.75°N, 1.41°W · view on map

St Aidan's is a nature reserve in United Kingdom, in Europe. The details of why St Aidan's is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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