| World / United Kingdom / England / Netherton, 3 km from center | Coordinates: 52°28'57"N 2°7'10"W |
Formerly one of the great industrial centres of the Black Country, Brierley Hill must once have been a spectacular sight with its coal mines, iron works, quarries and glassworks.
The mining subsidence, open shafts, cinder tips, heaps of slag and the pall of black smoke hanging over it made the hill a very unappetising place to live, and an old piece of doggerel went so far as to compare it wih Hell:
When Satan stood on Brierley Hill
And far around it gazed
He said, "I never more shall feel
At Hell’s fierce flames amazed.”
Category: hill
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