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Marston

In Victorian times, the Old Salt Mine at Marston was a huge tourist attraction. About 360ft deep and covering 35 acres, it even brought the Tsar of Russia here in 1844. Ten thousand lamps illuminated the huge cavern as the Emperor sat down to dinner here with eminent members of the Royal Society. By the end of the century, however, subsidence caused by the mine had made some 40 houses in the village uninhabitable, and one day in 1933 a hole 50ft wide and 300ft deep suddenly appeared close to the Trent & Mersey Canal. Happily, the village has now stabilised itself, and at the Lion Salt Works Museum volunteer workers keep alive the only surviving open pan salt works in Britain. The Museum is due to re-open in 2012 after reconstruction.