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Wheel Pit

Waldegrave Pool, Priddy.

NGR:ST 54771 51438
WGS84:51.26030, -2.64957
Length:3 m
Depth:1 m
Altitude:247 m
Tags:Mine, CROW
Registry:mcr-cs

Large depression where small overflow stream from Waldegrave Pool sinks. The pit was originally full of water which, about 1900, emptied muddying the stream flowing from Rodney Stoke Rising.

Alternate Names: Wheal Pit

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