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Town Moor intakes
Parts of the Town Moor have been given up over the decades for hospitals, a museum and army barracks.
These pockets of land are called intakes, as Town Moor Historian Freda Thompson explains:
PHOTOGRAPH: Jacky Longstaff
AUDIO: Murphy Cobbing
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