Winsford salt mine
 

Winsford salt mine

Winsford Rock Salt Mine is Britain's oldest working mine. It lies almost 200m under the Cheshire countryside and has a fascinating History.

It also hides some surprising facts. For example, did you know that towns around Winsford like Northwich, Middlewich and Nantwich,
all take their names from salt production, with 'Wych' often meaning 'Brine Town'?


check this place out it was a laff lol


we went for a UE as it caught my eye driving past so we did lol
good result till the security almost caught us lol


Here are my pix :)

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The conver

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The shaft

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Need to visit down the shaft

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The salt mine conver

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Did you bring back any grit?? I can't get down our path it's like an ice rink!!

Go back and nick us some salt!!

Good work :)

The works used to offer underground tours till about 10 years ago but due to health and safety they have stopped it :(

Will be a maize down there of worked pannels but would be interesting to have a look :)

yerrrr would be worth a visit under ground I,v been told its massive

Its also very unstable in places coz its not as deep as soem of the others. Has bee colapsing for years lol

A copies of some slides from a book about the salt mines :) (can be found in Wilmslow Library)

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Would be a long abseil and prussic lol

yup they ship it in from overseas lol

Possibly from the Salt mines in Ireland

Dont see why they dont just get some from boulby. They can bring out 26 tonnes ever 2 mins so cant see there being that much of a shortage lol

I want to do the Polish one called wieliczka. It looks amazing :)


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that looks cool :)

Wow, good day then?
nice pics :)

Nice work dude.