For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletterDecades ago the landscape to the east of Over Hulton was ripped apart by years of open cast mining.These days it is one of the areas most popular attractions, having been transformed from an industrial wasteland to a tranquil grassland of rolling hills.Cutacre Country Park, Bolton, was built by developers Harworth Estates as a gift to the local community following the construction of the huge Logistics North distribution centre which began in 2010.The 550-acre park boasts 18km of footpaths skirting several large lakes and ponds with views of the Derbyshire Dales in the east and across the Cheshire Plain to the Welsh Clwydians and the Mersey Estuary in.
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