This is, in fact, one flipping great big hole TF. It is the Cutacre open cast mining site and it stretches from the A6 road in the north almost to the Tyldesley boundary in the south and from about half a mile east of Newbrook Road almost to the boundary of Little Hulton. Apart from the extraction of coal it is intended to remove the Cutacre tip which comprises waste material deposited from the coal mines over many years. Until this work started it was the biggest industrial waste tip in Europe! There are dumper trucks working there capable of carrying one hundred tons at a time. As you’ll imagine, they are huge. It is possible to arrange conducted tours of the workings. As you have found out, many footpaths have been diverted.
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