Thanks for doing this video - you caught the town at just the right time on a great day - it looked beautiful! We lived in Shrewsbury for 7 years and both my kids were born there - lovely town!
Hi David. We did go there after the aqueduct hoping to catch it open. It was all closed. But we were very early. After looking at it online, it looks fantastic there.
Another great expedition and lovely engineering. I think your videos are really interesting and informative and always look forward to your next hike. Best regards from Newbold Verdon 😁
Great video, and some nice detective work seeking out the remaining features of the canal. That aqueduct is very impressive. Have you ever heard of Dukart’s Canal (aka Dukart’s Folly? There’s not much of it left other than a short but impressive aqueduct, now filled in and carrying road traffic, and the remains of his now very successful dry hurries.
@@LeiceExplore Yes, County Tyrone. I did a history tour of it many years ago. Seems like he was a bit of a chancer! The original plan called for multiple locks, which were quite new & expensive at the time. He undercut the bids & when he got started he announced it couldn’t be done in budget, but that he could do it by using dry hurries.
I doubt you can get near them, apart from maybe bank holidsys, but Arbury hall nuneaton had its own canal system, of which seaswood pool is it's reservoir. If you look at the weir where the water drains over by the dam, you can see the remains of the lock structure, as you could boat on to the lake itself. The canal system was eventually linked to the Coventry canal in collycroft (between nuneaton and bedworth) called the communication canal. Not to be confused with the griff arm. The system was in use before the Coventry canal.
Thank you for this information! I’ll be looking into this. I don’t live in Nuneaton, but I drive past Arbury hall now and then, and never knew of its canal.
It's worth looking into the history there, I bet they will be open bank holiday. Don't take my word for that though. They own a lot of land too. If you compare old maps courtesy of nls Scotland and the modern view you can possibly see the remains of a mineshaft too. Regards, Tim, from Nuneaton.
That’s it, I’ve traced it on the map. We also went to wappenshall wharf, but it was all closed up for work they are doing. The aqueduct was the main reason for going there, due to it being the oldest iron trough left in the world.
Brilliant. Have you been to the Pontcysyllte aqueduct? It takes your breath away. I'd love to have seen it under construction. And when they drained it for inspection a few years ago they found nothing wrong!
Cheers buddy. No, I’ve never been. I’d love to kayak over it like Gareth recently did. I seen a video of it drained recently, and like you say, nowt wrong we it m’lad
Thank you Dave. Unfortunately, it has been lost, and I doubt we’ll ever see it again, so we must make the most of what there is left. Thanks for watching.
