{"id":1415,"date":"2015-12-02T19:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2015-12-02T19:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:25:53","slug":"the-soughs-of-the-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2015\/12\/02\/the-soughs-of-the-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"The soughs of the Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A podcast on <a href=\"http:\/\/powerwaterproject.net\/?p=526\">the environmental history of the soughs of the mining areas of the Peak District<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the Peak District [&#8230;] is a subterranean network of drainage tunnels, the so-called soughs that were used to drain the lead mines of the region [and thus] prevent [17th century deep] mines from filling up with water drains or \u2018soughs\u2019 were cut through the hills to a neighbouring valley. The construction of soughs changed the hydrological [meaning, water flow] landscape of the Peak District, both below ground and above.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/4713376627_4958c4813b_o.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"4713376627_4958c4813b_o\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>Picture: My photo of a Peak sough in winter.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re up there walking, and you feel thirsty&#8230; it&#8217;s probably not a good idea to drink the nice sparkly water that&#8217;s <em>draining out of old lead mines<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A podcast on the environmental history of the soughs of the mining areas of the Peak District&#8230; Under the Peak District [&#8230;] is a subterranean network of drainage tunnels, the so-called soughs that were used to drain the lead mines of the region [and thus] prevent [17th century deep] mines from filling up with water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}