The Branch before the Canal
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2024
- The Branch before the Canal | Calne Branch | Wilts and Berks Canal
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A walk down the Calne branch from our last visit to the end of Conigre Locks and the tunnel into Calne, Wiltshire, the terminus of the Wilts and Berks branch. See the lift bridges, locks, river and bridges. See how the canal dropped into the River Marden. The Walk starts near to Bowood and the station from Isambard Kingdom Brunels GWR on the Calne Branch called Black Dog Halt and takes us right up to Harris Bacon factory and the town wharf and bridge where bacon and ice were the main commodities .
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As a Calne resident I have walked the Marden fields a number of times and always wondered what the bits of brickwork and concrete were, Now I understand. Many thanks.
No problem, glad to help
Really enjoyed this. Most interesting, great photography and commentary. Thank you.
thanks for watching!
Really fascinating video . Interesting commentary on the history and possible future for the branch
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for sharing great information my friend ❤
Thanks for watching!
Interesting ✅👍
Thanks! It’s a good subject 😂
Great walking tour and history of that branch of the canal.
Glad you enjoyed it. It goes live this evening so let's hope everyone else enjoys it!
Wonderfully informative and full of you natural enthusiasm. As a Chippenhamite for the first 25 years of my life, as a small boy I recall, on the way to get the bus home with my Mother, catching the bus at 'the wharf'. The name from the termination of the canal which was pointed out to me and I vaguely recall reed beds, some water in what remained of the canal, this must have been in the early 1950's. With your historical insight could I have seen such? Paul, Johannesburg
Yes, I plan to do a video with a guy from the chippenham museum. So the coal wharf for the chippenham branch was the bus station it then ran away from the library to little englands and what is the car park behind what was Vauxhall platinum on the causeway. There was then a tunnel which took you out towards the top of avenue la flèche and the old magistrates court. The canal then followed pewsham way until the roundabout on King Henry Drive. Some of the canal still exists to the side of pewsham way and you’ll find it if you do some digging. At the roundabout it went across to meet the line just north of pewsham locks, there was a brickworks in the clump of trees there.
Just discovered your great channel and as a canal enthusiast love it.
That’s great to hear, there’s quite a lot on the cotswolds btw!
Thank you for this days video. Always a great and informative to watch. See you on the next, Steve. Cheers mate! 😊
Thanks for watching! See you in a week
I cycled the old railway line two years ago and ended up at Calne Wharf. The route along the Marden valley is lovely.
I walk it regularly with my dog, I live the other end in Chippenham, it’s really lovely in the summer
@@CourtAboveTheCut I cycled the length of it both ways, starting from Stanley Lane. Masses of blackberries along there in September.
@@dukeofaaghisle7324 if you go chippenham end and carry on over the river, go under the old stone bridge and then into the fields on the right they usually have some good blackberries up there, although they are building on it, it must start this year or permissions will run out
@@CourtAboveTheCut I picked some good ones just by the Cocklebury Lane bridge if that’s where you mean. The rest were from the triangle of land where the farm track from Stanley Lane joins the cycleway. I also picked a few apple windfalls from the trees along the trackbed by Great Mead. Made a very nice forager’s apple & blackberry crumble.
@@dukeofaaghisle7324 yes that’s it, I always take the dog up there with a few bags and come back with loads
Always fascinating, thanks
Thanks for watching
Very interesting, particularly the fact that the Calne branch had a tunnel. They have done a fine job of restoration and its a pity not to extend it further out. Is there really no way of extending it into Calne?
As far as I’m aware no, there are no plans by the trust to even try to restore the arm at all, the restoration is such a massive project that they are just focusing on the mainline
Hi, where the Calne weir is, i remember there used to be a huge long piece of an cast iron beam which went all across the top of the weir - water. This was in the early 80's when it was there, it looked very old weathered red/orange, and rusty.
I wonder if there’s any sign of it, I’ll go back down when the water levels are lower
Hi steve. is the calne canal duck weed or green algae? just received my copy of cotswold canals trust trow magazine. great photos from you of 1b.
I think it’s duck weed.
Thanks, it was a pleasant surprise to see them all, I give the trusts use of all my media so I didn’t know I was so heavily featured. I’ve got the cover photo as well!
I’m also the centre spread in Lichfields magazine this month as well
if i run out of Duck weed for my ducks at Saul village will have to come down to Calne.