Mapping Britain’s fossil fuel sites

This summer my family made three different visits to England’s South Coast, for one reason or another. During our travels we saw the coastline from a variety of angles, and at one point I was struck by a strangely industrial site on the horizon. My son and I were looking at the view from a castle rooftop, and these spiky gantries looked very out of place amongst the greenery and the middle class holiday homes. We were in a national park, so it was particularly unexpected.

Had we just spotted ...