Thanks for this! I'm visiting the UK and the area in June and I have to get from Stroud to a museum I'm visiting (RMC The Cave) in Chalford and this looks like a great way to get there, just go on a little morning hike. It'll be fun!
A long day and double the walking. Nice video. I found the end of your video place, that end of the tunnel in the dark, pretty much by time went in on my own, great idea and got back out. Some old locks on that 8 -9 mile walk then. Got 3 up by me, A bike ride away. Must be so many all over just left falling apart.
Reading websites related to the restoration of various canal segments, this project will take years but what a positive result! Glad substantial progress is underway.
Thank you for posting this and for the helpful commentary. I first heard about the Cotswolds Canal from Saul to Inglesham around quarter of a century ago; I am so sad that it largely remains derelict and undervalued. What a wonderful, transformative addition to the canal network it would be if only there was sufficient political will to embrace the heritage and have the vision for what its full restoration would bring to a wide area.
Saw your comments which sounded a bit down 👇 .I lived in Brimscombe home of the port & have waited for restoration for longer than the 50 years of the trust working on it. But there's positive hope & the Stroud Water & Thames & Severn from Saul jct T & S to Thrupp will be open for navigation by 2025/26 , all the money is in place & the major blockages have been opened 2 which won awards from the civil engineering bodies so I will be attending the opening when it's announced when I will hopefully be in my 74th years & yes it will open.
Looks like a great walk. The NLS maps are an incredible resource for researching the history of a route. Simply being able to alter the map date is a great way to envision the evolution over the years. Seems to be a lot of history along this route. Nicely put together video.
A spring walk from Brimscombe to the Daneway Inn Sapperton & the West tunnel entrance is a fab walk with The ship Inn at the start & the Daneway at the end for a welcome pint , rest assured your enjoy it .
I remember walking the same route back in the late 70s or very early 80s. It was a sponsored walk from the old bus station (now Waitrose car park in Stroud) to the Bell Inn (where I presume you had your lunch?); it was a lovely summer day and my brother and I were very thirsty when we got to the pub and as I was only around 10 years old, we weren’t allowed into the pub to get a bottle of pop! We started walking back to Stroud but I got a blister on my heal and Mum had to come and rescue us near the Chalford Round House. Good memories!
@@davidfiandervideos thinking about it, it may have been the Daneway that we went to as well, still good memories (of the time) but a terrible memory (due to age)! 🙄
WE stayed at the Bell in Sapperton for 2 nights in february. Whilst there we walked to the tunnel from the Daneway Inn, and some way back the other way passing about 10 locks. It really is a lovely area.!
Thanks for making this, I really enjoyed it. I think the Baker's Mill Reservoir wildlife reserve towards the end, may have doubled as water power for the mill and as a canal feeder to help maintain its water level. It would be interesting if anyone could confirm this or otherwise.
Just found this as doing coments responds on mine of Sapperton video. Will have this on this afternoon. Teased me with it as doing Sapperton of my own. YT knows what we all like!. Will link this on mine. shows the end I did in the dark nicer. That end middle of knowhere, Strugged to get to in the dark through the tress on my own, the group I did other end with went off, me in a canal on my own. That the shorter end and did on my own. Never the best idea in water on own, done before, will again I expect!. In geocaching playlist of mine. if link YT links I find comment gets deleted by system. Looks a nice walk, will have on properly later.
@@davidfiandervideos It was not the best filming, that action camera (used the other week in railway tunnel too. it is getting old). Little camera in a case come out for some of the videos, The Cold war bunker October, some mines, fussy what the actual camcorder is used in, ROC post and pilbox, WW2 things in 3 hours, get there with Jason and go along a field edge 230m or so, Hope farmer not around. That later if we do, not caught. Sapperton in Geocaching playlist, will be in others but that the obvious one.
A bit of research would of told you , what you thought was canal was actually river & the wall you walked by was an old Security wall for the port , You would also have been aware that your walking the Phase that failed to get enough lottery money so is to be done in future years as 2003 , after the Northern canals ending with Rochdale 2002 & Southern K & A canal 1990s had exhausted the lottery pot for that century but the 21st century will be the Cotswold Canals turn . 👍
To walk into the past and see the glory that was, now become discarded, returned to Nature much changed and markers, never needed before, tell us what we have lost. To walk pathways trodden by common giants and see only a tiny bit of what they saw and understand none of it, because it is far before our today, because they have been buried by Time and all their labors becoming today. To live an easier life and a longer life and a life with time like spare change in our pockets, so we can be entertained by what was deadly serious to those common giants, so long ago. We owe them. We owe them thanks and respect and remembrance for building the world we "improved" on the bones of their improvements and the sweat of their brows and the pain in their backs, and the brilliance of their minds.
In the 1950's, a party of four members of the Coventry Canal Society, decided to explore the Sapperton Tunnel. The variously floated or dragged their two boats, one an old dinghy, the other an inflatable (appropriately named 'Windbag') over roof falls until they came to one over which they couldn't get as it filled the complete tunnel. They affixed a memorial plaque to the the tunnel wall to mark their visit, awaiting discovery when the tunnel is eventually restored. Perhaps someone will find it. Incidentally they didn't ask permission for their exploit as they couldn't think of anyone who could give it. I could name two of the party but that wouldn't be fair on those whose name I can't supply. Perhaps the names are on the plaque
Most entertaining! - with a continuous commentary. Perhaps one day it'll be restored - but then there will be no water.....
Thanks for this! I'm visiting the UK and the area in June and I have to get from Stroud to a museum I'm visiting (RMC The Cave) in Chalford and this looks like a great way to get there, just go on a little morning hike. It'll be fun!
A long day and double the walking. Nice video. I found the end of your video place, that end of the tunnel in the dark, pretty much by time went in on my own, great idea and got back out. Some old locks on that 8 -9 mile walk then. Got 3 up by me, A bike ride away. Must be so many all over just left falling apart.
Ten out of ten these fantastic people put hard work into restoring this and other canals.
Reading websites related to the restoration of various canal segments, this project will take years but what a positive result! Glad substantial progress is underway.
What a beautiful walk chasing history. One day it will be restored and enjoyed by even more people.
Really enjoyed the film and good commentary...thank you
Thanks for taking us along, I plan to visit this next summer thanks to your video :)
Thank you for posting this and for the helpful commentary. I first heard about the Cotswolds Canal from Saul to Inglesham around quarter of a century ago; I am so sad that it largely remains derelict and undervalued. What a wonderful, transformative addition to the canal network it would be if only there was sufficient political will to embrace the heritage and have the vision for what its full restoration would bring to a wide area.
Saw your comments which sounded a bit down 👇 .I lived in Brimscombe home of the port & have waited for restoration for longer than the 50 years of the trust working on it.
But there's positive hope & the Stroud Water & Thames & Severn from Saul jct T & S to Thrupp will be open for navigation by 2025/26 , all the money is in place & the major blockages have been opened 2 which won awards from the civil engineering bodies so I will be attending the opening when it's announced when I will hopefully be in my 74th years & yes it will open.
@@daejavue69 Thank you for your message and the encouragement to keep on hoping!
Looks like a great walk. The NLS maps are an incredible resource for researching the history of a route. Simply being able to alter the map date is a great way to envision the evolution over the years. Seems to be a lot of history along this route. Nicely put together video.
Just found this video as working on comments on my sapperton vid. A name I know. :)
A spring walk from Brimscombe to the Daneway Inn Sapperton & the West tunnel entrance is a fab walk with The ship Inn at the start & the Daneway at the end for a welcome pint , rest assured your enjoy it .
Thanks for sharing. It would be nice if plans were afoot to restore this magnificent waterway.
"Don't call me Dripping"! Straight out of a comedy sketch. Interesting walk.
I remember walking the same route back in the late 70s or very early 80s. It was a sponsored walk from the old bus station (now Waitrose car park in Stroud) to the Bell Inn (where I presume you had your lunch?); it was a lovely summer day and my brother and I were very thirsty when we got to the pub and as I was only around 10 years old, we weren’t allowed into the pub to get a bottle of pop! We started walking back to Stroud but I got a blister on my heal and Mum had to come and rescue us near the Chalford Round House. Good memories!
We actually went to the Daneway Inn as it was the first we came to.
@@davidfiandervideos thinking about it, it may have been the Daneway that we went to as well, still good memories (of the time) but a terrible memory (due to age)! 🙄
An interesting video. Just joined your TH-cam channel . Will view all in the near future. Best of luck in your endeavour. Cheers mate! 😊
WE stayed at the Bell in Sapperton for 2 nights in february. Whilst there we walked to the tunnel from the Daneway Inn, and some way back the other way passing about 10 locks. It really is a lovely area.!
Thanks for making this, I really enjoyed it. I think the Baker's Mill Reservoir wildlife reserve towards the end, may have doubled as water power for the mill and as a canal feeder to help maintain its water level.
It would be interesting if anyone could confirm this or otherwise.
Did he say "gate handle" at 12:30? Balance beam; that's what they area called.
Indeed they are! I just couldn't think of the words at the time.
@@davidfiandervideos I know the feeling, only too well.
I appreciate the "Dad Jokes"!
@ 07:49 "Walbridge 2, Inglesham 26 3/4. Hopefully one day, they'll win at home." 😆
Wow. Interesting.
Just found this as doing coments responds on mine of Sapperton video. Will have this on this afternoon. Teased me with it as doing Sapperton of my own. YT knows what we all like!. Will link this on mine. shows the end I did in the dark nicer. That end middle of knowhere, Strugged to get to in the dark through the tress on my own, the group I did other end with went off, me in a canal on my own. That the shorter end and did on my own. Never the best idea in water on own, done before, will again I expect!. In geocaching playlist of mine. if link YT links I find comment gets deleted by system. Looks a nice walk, will have on properly later.
I'll look forward to seeing your Sapperton video.
@@davidfiandervideos It was not the best filming, that action camera (used the other week in railway tunnel too. it is getting old). Little camera in a case come out for some of the videos, The Cold war bunker October, some mines, fussy what the actual camcorder is used in, ROC post and pilbox, WW2 things in 3 hours, get there with Jason and go along a field edge 230m or so, Hope farmer not around. That later if we do, not caught. Sapperton in Geocaching playlist, will be in others but that the obvious one.
A bit of research would of told you , what you thought was canal was actually river & the wall you walked by was an old Security wall for the port ,
You would also have been aware that your walking the Phase that failed to get enough lottery money so is to be done in future years as 2003 , after the Northern canals ending with Rochdale 2002 & Southern K & A canal 1990s had exhausted the lottery pot for that century but the 21st century will be the Cotswold Canals turn . 👍
More bit nice they hope restored nice for wildlifings too
That’s one haunted place. Beautiful but wouldn’t want to be there alone at night.
To walk into the past
and see the glory that was,
now become discarded,
returned to Nature much changed
and markers, never needed before,
tell us what we have lost.
To walk pathways trodden by common giants
and see only a tiny bit of what they saw
and understand none of it,
because it is far before our today,
because they have been buried by Time
and all their labors becoming today.
To live an easier life and a longer life
and a life with time like spare change
in our pockets,
so we can be entertained by
what was deadly serious
to those common giants, so long ago.
We owe them.
We owe them thanks and respect
and remembrance
for building the world we "improved"
on the bones of their improvements
and the sweat of their brows
and the pain in their backs,
and the brilliance of their minds.
In the 1950's, a party of four members of the Coventry Canal Society, decided to explore the Sapperton Tunnel. The variously floated or dragged their two boats, one an old dinghy, the other an inflatable (appropriately named 'Windbag') over roof falls until they came to one over which they couldn't get as it filled the complete tunnel. They affixed a memorial plaque to the the tunnel wall to mark their visit, awaiting discovery when the tunnel is eventually restored. Perhaps someone will find it. Incidentally they didn't ask permission for their exploit as they couldn't think of anyone who could give it. I could name two of the party but that wouldn't be fair on those whose name I can't supply. Perhaps the names are on the plaque
Look like a lot of water, that can be harness to produce power. :)
Pity it's been in such a sorry state for such a long time...
Its great for cottaging
such a shame to see many canals used shame they cant open all the cannles up instead of sitting there doing notthing
Did all Britons canals git bilt by the Irish like they did in the U.S. or do they blame theirs on the Romans.
Really think much better not to restore it so much wonderful wildlife there. Quite enough canals exist already.