--- In [email protected], "Tim Boddington" <t...@...> wrote: > > Would it be absolute sacrilege to suggest that the tunnel should be opened > out? It is without doubt the most pointless tunnel ever built - the towpath > runs at normal level only 20 feet or so on open ground to the side of the > tunnel!
If I remember rightly (*) the tunnel wasn't an original feature of the canal, which stopped just short of where the tunnel entrance now is. The reason for the towpath's fairly level, wide route around the tunnel is because it used the former route of an extension of the tramway from Cauldon Low. Have I remembered rightly? (*) as in I remember reading it a long time ago. I'm not quite that old. Martin L
