----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:27 PM Subject: [canals-list] let's go off road
> Tonight I found myself near the village (Best large village in Somerset > 1997) of Ruishton in the need of an evening walk in the balmy sunny > evening. I walked through the village and found the disused Chard > canal > on the eastern side. The aqueduct over the road is long gone and the > abutments have been converted into pillboxes to defend the area during > WW2. If you're in the area again Graham and get as far as Ilminster there's a short section in water. I trace my intereset in canals back that far. I was at school there and the canal runs along the bottom of the playing field. In my day it was dry and I spent many happy Sunday mornings avoiding the compulsory walk by lying up in the canal bed with a book. From the now-rewatered (as a nature reserve) section you can still see the line of the inclined plane up Herne Hill. When I was a lad, you could still see the tunnel entrance but it's been covered over now. One of the other tunnels, Crimson Hill, is still just about accesible I believe and for the geocachers among us there's a 5/5 cache in there called The Beast of Crimson Hill. Cheers Guy -- Guy Morgan First Light Services nb Virgo, WFB, Stockton, GU
