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is this a recent photo, is the brook still like this, my gran lived on Chestnut Rd, Bottlin Wood,from her back garden you could get into the plantations, used to be a little footbridge over the brook. Not been there for over 40yrs.

Through the intervention of a fool in Environmental Health it doesn't run yellow, it now runs clear through being filtered, after running yellow for more years than anyone can remember he said it was causing pollution in the river Douglas, if the Romans were still around they would have drunk from the Yellow Brook for its rich iron content.

Correction Cyril it doesn't flow out whatsoever it has been pumped back uphill to the reed beds at Alexandra. Thus defeating the object of this Scheduled Ancient Monument.

J.RUDD ... the footbridge is still there.

The iron or ochre was from the pits via Haigh Sough. Upstream of here the stream is clear. The filters were installed after some clown tipped toxic chemicals in and made the water dangerous to man and beast. What have the Romans got to do with it and why would a stream be an ancient monument?

Just stating a fact Frank: -

http://www.wigan.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0CF04392-CFB8-4970-9174-0DA3AD48886B/0/ScheduledAncientMonuments.pdf

Andrew The object of the ancient monument was to drain the pits, which it still does. The water was contaminated with iron and manganese and is now clear. The Yellow Brook is not a monument. The Sough is.

"Andrew The object of the ancient monument was to drain the pits, which it still does".

I know!

"The Yellow Brook is not a monument. The Sough is".

That's what I said! Scheduled Ancient Monument doesn't operate as it has for hundreds of years thus defeating the object. That was my point. Crikey!

Also please make your mind up on what contaminated the water, toxic chemicals or iron & manganese :)

The sough was built to drain the pits and the outlet should function through draining the water. As the sough no longer drains water into the brook it has ceased to function as a sough outlet. It is pumped up stream to reed beds the outlet no longer functions thus destroying its purpose therefore altering an ancient monument. What would have been correct would have been that the cleaned water should have been discharged back into the sough near the outlet thus allowing the sough outlet to function as designed.