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'Places are the rub between sites and people OVER TIME'. We don't just pin a site's identity to a handful of years for the same reason that we don't stop our investigations at the red line.

It was coal that seems to have been the 'bribe' to get people to buy the whole intrusion into the unspoilt wilderness of Sutton Park. This gave our site an area for rail/road interchange.

There were two or three possible routes for the railway through the Park, but this route was chosen as the line of least damage. There were also a number of conditions and these included council control over design of bridges, planting of ornamental shrubs on the embankments, and provision of a station on the west side of the park.