Englands lesser known ancient monument

In this video we take a look at one of Englands lesser know ancient monuments. This is the Great Haigh Sough. A mine adit. Built in the 17th Century its a brilliant piece of Mining engineering. It was built to drain the Lancashire Coal mines around the wigan area. It's basically an abandoned tunnel discovered through urbex and using old maps. It's a tunnel drain that ran for 1120 yards. The mine water ran into it and was eventually deposited in the Yellow brook near to the River Douglas in the woods in Wigan. Coal mining was affected by water ingress and this water caused massive problems in mines. Which leads us onto the second part of out video. A victorian structure and a piece of Victorian mining engineering. The Aspull Pumping station. The Aspull pumping station or Aspull pumping pit was built in 1871 and closed in 1932. It also pumped out the mines of the Lancashire coalfields in the wigan area. It was a steam driven mine pump that utilised 5 lancashire boilers. Eventually the mine pumps were electrically driven. This video is about Coal mining engineering Industrial history and the history of mining and one of Englands Scheduled ancient monuments.

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