For any one interested the May Northern Canals Association meeting will be on the Uttoxeter Canal. Probably meeting at Endon, but with a walk along the canal in the afternoon. If anyone is interested you can contact me and I'll circulate you the details when they go out, cost for the meeting will be £10 which will include lunch. Advert over! Steve
Neil Arlidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Wood wrote: > Andrew Smith wrote: >> Microsoft's Live Map (http://maps.live.com/) seems quite good as >> well. I have found that they seem to have better detailed coverage >> than Google Earth though some of the pictures are rather out of date >> (e.g. Wigrams Turn Marina is still a field) but if you are looking >> for a lost canal I don't suppose that matters! > > Its not lost, its just sleeping ;-) > > To pick up on earlier comments, after the JCB site the line of the > canal heads round the back of the last lake then is marked by the > line of > trees which move ever closer to the main road as you approach > Uttoxeter. just after the closest point, which is about 1/3 of the > way back to the > A50 you can park in a small side road and scramble through the > undergrowth to the canal. Thereafter it's pretty simple to work out > the > line from ground level across fields all the way to Spath, where it > becomes very visible from the road again. After the A50 crossing it is > best traced from maps than from evidence on the ground. The terminus > is clearly marked on OS maps as "The Wharf" > > Bear in mind that through much of this section you're looking for > something that looks more like a railway bed than a canal. > > Steve > NB Bream It would appear that where the canal took a loop to the north of the Churnet (above Denstone, the railway was to the south of the river at this point) it passed over the Churnet on the level. The weir is still there and the site of a lock just above (as tallied with Oldmaps) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - In limbo... Follow the truly independent TNC at : http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk Visit this site and help save our waterways from the DEFRA cuts http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/ Yahoo! Groups Links --------------------------------- Inbox full of unwanted email? Get leading protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
