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Salt Fields brine well
A well-head beside a brine pond (concealed behind the tall grasses) at Pressall near Knott End on the Lancashire Coast in Lancashire.
Large deposits of rock salt lie underground at Knott End and Preesall. Brine wells were first drilled here in the 1890s to pump fresh water down bore holes to dissolve the salt or halite deposits which could then be extracted by pipeline to an evaporation process. The brine fields here provided the raw material for the ICI chemical plant across the Wyre which produced both chlorine and salt.
Created: August 31, 2022
Author: Joan Martin
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Photograph keywords: brine, brine fields, brine pond, brine well, Knott End, Lancashire, Pressall, rock salt, salt, salt fields, salt well, wellhead
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