I've captured and talked about the canal walks a few times on here, and also the railway line that has now become a cycle track, and a great place for walks. Well today's capture gives you both in one go and I love both areas.
This canal was built in 1770 to bring coal into the valleys and then to send the cloth from the mills out to the world. You can walk for nearly 15 miles along the canal from the River Severn up to the Sapperton Canal Tunnel. The railway however was built in 1867 and you can say became the demise of the poor old canal.
The green bridge over the canal is the old railway line, now the cycle-track and runs at 45 degrees to the canal, hence it it called Skew Bridge. It is near to the beginning of the track and if you want just a short walk you can come along the tract from a car park and over the bridge, step down the bank and then walk the reverse along the canal, back to your car.
It's so sad that you can just see a new modern bridge over the canal in the distance. This is the very busy bypass with lots of traffic; it's the roads and Lorries that killed off the railway passenger services back in 1947 and goods by 1966. I wonder what will kill off the roads in the future.
@beryl Skewiff - This colloquial expression for something crooked or askew dates from eighteenth-century Scots and is now mainly to be found in Britain and the Commonwealth.
@ladymagpie - thanks for that info - we always used the expression at home - usually when speaking in Welsh - but it can not be Welsh as we have no K in the Welsh alphabet !
I suspect too many people and cars will kill off the roads as the population increases and we will all be at a standstill.