The Walk - EP 143 - 220 Years Of History Abandoned In The Woods - The Forgotten Somerset Coal Canal

[@clairharwood]

Love it! Can't beat a sunny day in Somerset!

[@LadySophieofHougunManor7325]

Fantastic video the history is awesome hope you all well and recovered from the walk 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤🎉🎉

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

Keep up the amazing videos Gareth and thank u 😊😊😊

[@declanjoyce8640]

Incredible...

[@bwaynesilva]

The wooden lock gates were amazing after 220 years. What a find.

[@IckeWalks]

Incredible isn't it!

[@stevenberryhill9209]

Good health to you men traversing 🎶”…the rocks and the rills and the vales and the hills” 🎵 Nice videography. Healthy sunlight and greenery all over 🌱

[@IckeWalks]

You too!

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

You completely understand why the Railways took over from the canals 😊😊😊this is a superb example Gareth . Well done 👏 ✔️ 👍 👌 😀

[@IckeWalks]

Absolutely!

[@johnwest9756]

I absolutely love your videos. My family history on my mum's and pop's sides of the family originates in Borrowash, Derbyshire and although I live in Arizona my visits to England are cherished. You and your mates bring me along with you on these explorations and I appreciate it more than I can describe. Thank you, thank you. Oh, and I worked on the railroads in Utah, Colorado and West Virginia in USA for 36 years adding more significance to your videos.🙏👍

[@IckeWalks]

Thats awesome. Not been to Arizona since I was a kid!

[@claireg1717]

Absolutely loves those gates. That was the best bit for me. It boggles my mind every time because of what you find. You just don't know what you don't know until you do! Thanks to all of you intrepid wanderers.

[@IckeWalks]

They were the best part for me too. Incredible they're still in place.

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

Thanks, Gareth and Chums....very interesting. I've never seen a series or, indeed, a singular disused lock before.. keep up the great wirk Gareth...😊😊😊😊loving the Channel

[@IckeWalks]

Thanks mate.

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

Awesome Channel 👌 👏 👍 😍

[@IckeWalks]

Thanks mate!

[@petemoring67]

The commitment You put INTO these 'walk' video's is amazing - And worthy of FAR MORE Subscribers to this channel ... So! C'mon Folks - SHARE!! 👍🤠

[@VincentHardy-zt3nt]

Fantastic Video Gaz, great to be a part of it too, those lock gates were just magic! Worth the uphill struggles for sure, Look forward to the next time.

[@IckeWalks]

Great to have you come along, mate. Tunnel was a bonus, too.

[@petersilvester1315]

Comment from a canal historian and canal book publisher.....Winding hole is a widened bit of canal solely put there for boats to be turned round so they can go the other way .....Basin is a widened bit of canal built for mooring for loading/unloading, and sometimes for longer term mooring ..... Pound is the right word for the section of canal between two locks. A pound might be very short, as between these locks, or very long (miles in fact). And can I also say, a very enjoyable video. Thank you!

[@johnosgraveyardjaunts2235]

Gareth, I am a Lestonian and lived off the Narborough Road, your dad would know. I remember the Bowstring Bridge and also the Bridge near Bede Park where Vic Berry's was, which I remember also. I remember your dad on ATV as a Sports Presenter. I remember there being a huge amount of railway carriages scrapped at Vic Berry's where they would remove the asbestos and break them down

[@LeiceExplore]

Excellent, epic scenes! Great little vid Gaz, I’ve followed this canal on the NLS side by side maps, there is a lot going on down there, but as you found out, not a nearby Noseh!

[@ianhalsall-fox]

Our best kept secret south of Bath! The hairpin is called the Bull Nose.

[@jaynegrace4541]

You were blessed with the weather fella! My old neighbour, many years older than me, used to say “we get the weather we deserve Jayne” after asking how our holiday weather had been…….wonderful man who put many a smile on my face so often. Gareth, we are off to walk/boat over the Pontcysyllte Aqeduct next week. Have you done that? We have done the “tiz and test” route through the Atlas Mountains a couple of times so should be ok with the mountain roads in Wales and the drop from the Aqeduct! Thanks to all for the video.

[@gilesestram]

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[@IckeWalks]

We were meant to be elsewhere actually and then here the following day. But the weather flipped so we ended up in Somerset, and what a day!

[@Tel-f7w]

22 locks would drive me mad, i bet they were very thankful for the railways

[@IckeWalks]

Dread to think how long it took!

[@garycameron1]

Very interesting video mate. Canals are awesome feats of engineering. I live next to the Forth and Clyde canal and I often wonder what it woulda been like for the workies digging the canal out. That 220 year old lock gate was a great find. Well done and keep up the great work.

[@IckeWalks]

I'd love to get more done in Scotland. An absolute treasure trove I bet!

[@garycameron1]

@@IckeWalks I am sure you would do a great job. All your videos are splendid mate.

[@richardperry5538]

❤️

[@alfaubrom]

Hayup Gareth beautiful stonework to them locks, with it looking narrower than the normal narrow boat width perhaps they made purpose built extra tall an narrow vessels, so that the narrower estuary or channel didn’t need so much water to shift boats up and down!? you could calculate the weight they carried by the width and depth of the locks, because of grounding an water dispersion in relation to a more standard gauge lock system. You could perhaps carry a tape measure just for extra detail and for comparison as you get about quite a bit it’d be good to see how everywhere measures up an differs. Cheers

[@IckeWalks]

Not a bad shout mate! My bag is gradually filling up!

[@alfaubrom]

@@IckeWalks yeh I imagine that’s an issue with camera kit an sustenance, err golf buggy or bike trailer, them old school fabric tape measures may be the lightest an friendly on film as they don’t create that shocking sound as they collapse on you at full length. Cheers

[@Tel-f7w]

Transformer in the tunnel, LOL

[@gilesestram]

We barley scratched the surface round there. For example, that arch at the start, carrying the railway, took out 1 of the locks, during construction of the bridge. And we had blinked and drifted past 3 or 4 partially buried locks before we got to that point. Still, we got to the main event(s)

[@IckeWalks]

Yeah, definitely more to uncover.

[@alfaubrom]

Howdo that lined tunnel at the end was a bit special to see the overlay an it got me wondering how many more are like that? I guess it’s gotta be pretty big to start with otherwise it’d be a bit tight, if I was the farmer I’d be driving through it several times a day just for the crack, obviously I’d put some beasts on tother side or a pond to water the solar farm keeping it real, for our futures. Does that lidar pick up the overlay of railways on to canals? Cheers

[@gilesestram]

@@alfaubrom This Tunnel was originally much smaller , and had to be reprofiled and the bed lowered to accomadate trains. I only ever saw 1 phot of it in its canal days. In fact pictures of it with a railway in it are not that common

[@alfaubrom]

@@gilesestram thanks for gettin back, that makes sense the original tunnel being smaller suppose you’d only excavate to your needs,I imagine re profiling it would have been a task, slightly better than from scratch as you’d have light at each end, I wonder if as they enlarged it you’d have brickies following close behind to shore an support it as you go? I often think of private photos what resides in Francis Friths photographs many unpublished Salisbury holds a collection of them. I left a random comment awhile back on another upload about a hidden underground railway on Moor Park estate in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire when it was owned by a A,W Schuster, I wondered have you heard of that and are there any photos, might make for an unusual film on unorthodox or unusual stations in odd locations, it must have has air vents to allow the smoke out?! Cheers Phil

[@Knut-Knoten2024]

I like you.Very likeable man.😀

[@IckeWalks]

Thank you.