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Abandoned Canal
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Canal Lift
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Abandoned Canal
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Canal to the left with a narrowboat moored alongside the towpath. In the foreground, to the right, is a horse in the shade of a tree. The horse is harnessed for pulling the narrowboat.
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A way to avoid sludgy, muddy paths at this time of year and still get in a decent walk is to follow a canal towpath, like that of the #GrandWesternCanal, home to one of the last horse-drawn barges in Britain. #walking #Devon walkingways.uk/2025/01/21/w...
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Only one kiln remains in its entirety, but you still get a good idea of what the place must have been like. Today, it’s purely a leisure facility. A floating cafe or two, a history centre, and horse-drawn narrow boat rides. 2/2
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Grand Western Canal, Part six and a half!
Part way along this section, the canal passes through what appears to be some quite old woodland. On the way back, the diminishing light gave it a rather forbidding look. About as enticing as Fangorn!
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Grand Western Canal, Part six.
Nearing the end. As the canal approaches Tiverton, there are a small number of boats moored.
The canal finally meanders through the outskirts of the town, though nearly all these houses were built long after it.
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Grand Western Canal, Part five and a half!
The only surviving aqueduct on the canal. Built in 1847 to allow the railway line to reach Tiverton, it was another nail in the canal’s coffin.
It’s perhaps ironic that the railway line is long gone, and the canal survives.
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Grand Western Canal, Part five.
The next few miles pass through open farmland, and much of the canal is built on an embankment. One of the older bridges here may not, I think, be in regular use any longer.
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Grand Western Canal, Part three and a half!
Part way along the section in part three, you come across Black Bridge, a sign of the decline of the canal. Built in 1879, it carried a tramway to transport stone from a nearby quarry to the railway.
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Grand Western Canal, Part three.
From Waytown to Ayshford, the canal passes through woodland and open farmland. It goes through deep cuttings and steep embankments, both significant feats of engineering, but time-consuming and expensive.
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An extra picture from this afternoon by the canal. A drowsy sun, some strong reflections, and the vestiges of an early morning snowfall on the hills in the distance.
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Grand Western Canal, Part two.
Leaving the Waytown tunnel, there is a reminder of one of the canal’s main purposes: lime kilns. Limestone from the quarries nearby was used for roadstone, or turned into quicklime for use as a fertiliser.
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This month I’m walking the Grand Western Canal (stretch by stretch when the weather’s kind and my body allows!).
It’s a canal I was unfamiliar with and I’m going to share some history and sights over the coming week or two.
This is Sampford Peverall.
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