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No Sleep 'Til Apedale

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The site was riddled with small mines, known as Footrails locally.

According to British Small Mines (South) published by the Industrial Railway Society, no less than seven drifts on the site were noted in the early 1980s.

It is remarkably difficult to locate features from the old mines, since the site was largely cleared, and then levelled after the end of the mining era.

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