Paul, you are no tree falling in te woods that is heard only once. You are more like the breeze that flows through them bringing a breath of fresh air to hitherto relatively unknown places. 😊 Keep up the good work and don’t get too many bramble scratches. 👍
My old dog walk was along the canal there at Nynehead. There is also a lovely Holloway at Nynehead, never knew the boat lift was in those bushes, walked across there many times. Very interesting 👍👍
Thank you Paul for all the fascinating information you bring to us…I’m an American but greatly enjoy the material and historical insights you provide to viewers.
There's me thinking this was a video about Cornwall's desire to be independent from the rest of the country! Thanks for struggling through all that mud and brambles to bring us such interesting stories, it certainly saves us from having to bother! :-))
Fascinating stuff, particularly those early forerunners of the Anderton Lift. Puts you in mind of similar attempts at North-South canal 'short-cuts', such as the Wey and Arun Canal, which suffered a similar fate at the hands of the railway.
You may not consider yourself to be an “academic”, but my dictionary notes this term relates to education, and you are certainly educating me (and hopefully the other 87,600 subscribers here. You may not have “an ‘ology”, but you certainly have the ability to tell a story in an interesting and engaging way - if only some of the “professionals” who look down on those outside their profession had even 10% of your skills in this area. Thanks for all you (and Rebecca) do.
As I was born in West Somerset, I have a vested interest in this topic. Somerset now has a unitary local authority, enacted against a local referendum to best suit the mythical needs of the trickle-down economists. It is very much a county of two parts, with the west of the county being greatly disadvantaged; but the locals are still rather proud of their differences. And rightly so!
Surprised you didn't mention the still open Tiverton stretch of the canal. It is a few miles long, and a comparatively wide canal. Very scenic and very popular with anglers. Not to mention it has horse-drawn tourist narrow boats. It has a wide towpath which also doubles as a walking trail. I visited it in 2010 and found it well worth the visit. It suffered a major breach sometime in the noughties, as one stretch follows the contours around a hill. But it was rebuilt before 2010.
You are a great storyteller but it's the research that goes into each one that make them even better. I went on a school trip to those marshes when I was 13 and that Sweet Track kicked off my love of history!
@paulandrebeccawhitewick not an academic but enthusiasm for a subject encourages research, excellent reporting and your editing is pretty good as well!
I live in Bridgwater. I know a fair bit about the area upto about 50 miles radius. When ever you do a video in this area, you find and show things I didn’t know about. Many thanks.
That caisson for the canal lift is epic. Hard to believe, as you say, so much has gone. You can tell Rebecca wasn't there, no way would have got near that swing if she was 😂 Thanks for another great video.
Anyone could do this sort of video, Paul, yes. But you are the one (or one of the few) actually doing it! And in an appealing way too. So, thank *you* for enlightening us with your curiosity :)
@@pwhitewick it do go back a long way, but with hill that contains fresh water, then it becomes not that surprising, Been told the water comes from up on top of 5 valleys hills
the spirits of those engineers & labourers should smile upon you for all this effort to re discover their endeavours Paul. this is really interesting stuff 👍😁
Awesome and very interesting video about ibritish pre ndustrial history and road-/canalbuilding history at least back to the neolithikum. Thanks for those incredible Footage. Greetings from Germany.
Awesome video, I grew up a few miles from the Nynehead Boat Lift. I stumbled across it one day on a walk and wondered what on earth it was - no signage back then. Keep up the great work!
You deserve a special TH-cam award as you boldly go to new frontiers, right to the middle of a thicket. For a minute I was about to become angry with Google as ai hthey hadn't joined up the two halves of the photo map correctly. I enjoyed your dig into the past, thanks!
Cornwall & most of Devon was also nearly vut off during ww2 by a line of pillbox & tank traps it started in Axmouth passing through our school at Axminster going on up to North Devon/ n Somerset.
I'd much rather have the sound of the tree falling over as he travels along the pathways --- than the dry scratches of an "academic's" pontificating in printed prose. 😊
...and without you, there was no tree... Thanks for enlightening this present generation. There's no telling how many more generations are left to experience history. ❤
I live between Exeter and Torquay. Down here, the old main roads were really narrow and bumpy. New dual roads (A30, A38, A380) were built only around 40 years ago. It’s shocking to think how the West Country had been so effectively cut off until quite recently.
very nice to watch again. As an history-enthusiast and enjoyer of nature, this is really great. I should do something similar at my home, just for the enjoyement. Thx
This was a really excellent video! Your presentation was gripping! Music at the right (quiet) level. Great image and sound quality. Possibly your best yet!
You missed the final chapter - when people really did need to cut off Cornwall and Devon: the _Taunton Stop Line._ In 1940, Britain had to defend against possible German invasion. The south coast is largely pebble beaches backed by steep cliffs. The open sandy beaches are in Devon, so there had to be defence lines constructed to prevent German advance after a landing there. The line of the River Axe, Chard canal&railway, Bridgwater&Taunton canal, were reinforced with concrete pill boxes. They had arcs of fire down the linear features, and over the land to the west. The best place to see all this is Creech St. Michael, just east of Taunton. It has the River Tone, the B&T canal and the main rail line all passing east-west within a 200m of each other. Then spurring to the south are the remains of the Chard canal & railway. The canal is on a raised aqueduct, which still bridges the River Tone, and a local road. The railway is parallel to the canal on a slight embankment. It crossed the Tone on the elegant splayed Five Arch Bridge, that is now just a masonry skeleton, to join the main line railway. If you walk from C St. M east along the B&T canal to Bridgwater, you see a succession of pill boxes that formed the line - the first one is about 1500m east, then 3 more in quick succession. [footnote (long but not 172 pages :) - 'Creech' is/means 'Creek'. The Tone splits in two, with one stream flowing under a small stony hill, elevated from the river. It is a natural wharf and river access on ground above the swampy floods (which still occur). On the hill is the Church of St. Michael, hence the name. But churches dedicated to St. Michael are always built over previous pagan sites, because St. Michael expelled the devil, so has special powers against the old heathen gods. Examples include Glastonbury Tor, Burrow Mump, Brent Knoll, St. Michael's Mount Cornwall and Mont St. Michel Normandy. The natural setting and naming suggests very ancient occupation of the village]. There is a public footpath in the fields south of the river in C St. M that gives a splendid view of the aqueduct and course of the old railway. There are a couple of nice walks: - Short: park in C St. M (there is a car park on Bull St. south of the church, that used to belong to The Canal Inn, now closed and turned into a dwelling). See the existing B&T canal and rail bridge. Drop on to the B&T canal towpath, turn west, there is a pill box where the old Chard canal joins with the existing B&T canal. The road bridge over the canal has bricked-up mine demolition chambers. Then go back to the road, south over the river bridges, and immediately right onto the footpath. Climb steps over the aqueduct, and drop down to view the skeleton of the old railway bridge over the river. There is a pill box at the south end of the canal bridge over the Tone; another over the road bridge to the south; and another clearly visible on the old railway embankment. Perhaps go as far as Ruishton for a pint in the pub (Ruishton Inn), then back to C St. M. - Long: park in the Taunton 'Hankridge Farm' out-of-town shopping area, near the Odeon cinema. Walk north out the back of the car park onto the river walk, turn left (west). Go over the River Tone _and_ the main line railway on the A38 road bridge (a famous construction in its own right, you can also walk under the bridge, then back up to the A38 from the west side). Continue to The Bathpool pub. Cross the A38 and walk west 100m to the interesting pedestrian swingbridge on the B&T canal. Turn east and walk the towpath, under the M5, to Creech St. Michael. You will see the pill box. Continue a little way, go under the road, then up onto the road. Turn south - follow the route before - over the river bridges, onto the footpath, over aqueduct, railway bridge, Ruishton. Then go from the Ruishton Inn to Ruishton church. There is a footpath back to the river. Cross the fields, under the M5, and you are back at the shopping zone.
as always, a really interesting video, and had me searching through the Old Map Library and OSMaps to follow along where you were. Interesting fact about Chard near where you started - it claims the first powered flight by a John Stringfellow who built a steam-powered aircraft in 1848, and managed to fly it around a large room at Oram's Lace Mill.
I'm pretty new to your channel but so far loving every one, look forward to your future 'waffling', lol. Btw, you seem so natural communicating facts in an engaging, educational way and on camera. Either one is a difficult skill to crack but you seem to have it nailed it. Do you have a background in teaching?
The Somerset and Dorset Railway's original route went from Burnham-on-Sea to near Poole, the intention being to provide the land part of a route from South Wales to Northern France! Obviously, the trans-shipment problems made this impractical for both goods and passengers, but it was intended as a shorter route than going round Land's End, so it fits Paul's criteria.
The canal structures are very similar to some of the locks and such on the old C&O (Chesapeake and Ohio, if I am not mistaken) Canal near me. It runs along the Potomac River, so it doesn't try to cut off an entire peninsula. We don't have tunnels over its course AFAIK, that's pretty interesting! Many of the canals in the Washington DC and Virginia area were initially designed for horse drawn boats, so the tunnels would have needed to be much larger.
Interestingly there once was a boat service into Burnham which connected with a train to Poole which in turn connected with a boat to France. It didn’t last long, though.
Hi Paul. I've just discovered you and your site. Brilliant!! I live on the other side of the planet but the Romans in Britain are really interesting to me. (Plus the bits before and after, of course!!) So. Keep it up!
I like this episode but think you missed a trick looking for a route through Somerset. The town and village names give it away. Langport where the tide would run far inland. Then there is Pylle on the Fosse way. A Peel (IoM), pill (Huntspill) or Liverpool, Hartlepool are names of ports I think from Saxon/Viking naming meaning a port. Once you got to Pylle having landed at Moridunum (Axmouth) and walked a couple of days you could wait for the high tide and take a boat across to Caerleon maybe a couple of days paddling through the levels and a days sailing from Burnham instead of the week of walking up to the Severn Crossings. The river levels were higher then as since drainage the land has risen a meter or so.
That "Roman" field sloping to a tree/waterline is interesting , looks a bit like some stuff time team looked at, I wonder if there were small buildings up the field
In the 1970s we had people working industriously at cutting off the Florida peninsula from mainland USA. It was a boondoggle that eventually lost support. In retrospect, they should have dug a moat around Tallahassee instead.
Although I was born in Surrey, my family have a long history from Cornwall. I now live in Devon and wish they would chop off Devon & Cornwall. Make it a separate country like Wales and Scotland
@ the 14:07 map you can see Exeter. Not far from there is Woodbury where Sir Walter Raleigh lived. He is know for setting up the first Colonies in the US. Probably why there are a lot of places where you live that share their name with places around this location including Woodbury.
The Devon Canal would I guess (haven't measured it yet) be about 51 miles, ie equivalent to the Panama Canal. No massive lake to feed any locks and I suspect both ends have the same tide. Although the time saving would make it uneconomical.
Paul, the best teachers are ones that bring the story alive. - You bring every story alive. Well done.
Thanks Neil
Totally agree
And indeed you bring it alive.
Such great hands-on experience. Love it.
Paul, you are no tree falling in te woods that is heard only once.
You are more like the breeze that flows through them bringing a breath of fresh air to hitherto relatively unknown places. 😊
Keep up the good work and don’t get too many bramble scratches. 👍
Maybe not an academic but a great story teller, thanks for keeping us informed and entertained!
Great to see you again today, Paul. Always look forwards to the videos. Say hello to Rebecca for me, and enjoy the week ahead! ❤❤😊😊
What a walk!
Superb film - a bit of Romans, canals, railways and Paul jumping into undergrowth. Life doesn't get much better than this.
Consciously aware now that Paul jumping into the undergrowth needs to be a regular thing! ;-)
@@pwhitewick Paul is the new David Bellamy.
My old dog walk was along the canal there at Nynehead. There is also a lovely Holloway at Nynehead, never knew the boat lift was in those bushes, walked across there many times. Very interesting 👍👍
Ah wish I had know!
Thank you Paul for all the fascinating information you bring to us…I’m an American but greatly enjoy the material and historical insights you provide to viewers.
There's me thinking this was a video about Cornwall's desire to be independent from the rest of the country!
Thanks for struggling through all that mud and brambles to bring us such interesting stories, it certainly saves us from having to bother! :-))
Fascinating stuff, particularly those early forerunners of the Anderton Lift. Puts you in mind of similar attempts at North-South canal 'short-cuts', such as the Wey and Arun Canal, which suffered a similar fate at the hands of the railway.
You may not consider yourself to be an “academic”, but my dictionary notes this term relates to education, and you are certainly educating me (and hopefully the other 87,600 subscribers here.
You may not have “an ‘ology”, but you certainly have the ability to tell a story in an interesting and engaging way - if only some of the “professionals” who look down on those outside their profession had even 10% of your skills in this area.
Thanks for all you (and Rebecca) do.
Perhaps you two should investigate the Rebecca Riots in South Wales. As it was all about turnpikes, it would be right up your street.
As I was born in West Somerset, I have a vested interest in this topic. Somerset now has a unitary local authority, enacted against a local referendum to best suit the mythical needs of the trickle-down economists. It is very much a county of two parts, with the west of the county being greatly disadvantaged; but the locals are still rather proud of their differences. And rightly so!
Surprised you didn't mention the still open Tiverton stretch of the canal. It is a few miles long, and a comparatively wide canal. Very scenic and very popular with anglers. Not to mention it has horse-drawn tourist narrow boats. It has a wide towpath which also doubles as a walking trail. I visited it in 2010 and found it well worth the visit. It suffered a major breach sometime in the noughties, as one stretch follows the contours around a hill. But it was rebuilt before 2010.
Well who knew? Thank you for the story telling Paul. Fascinating insight into our past and long forgotten engineering.
this was really interesting , well done and thank you Paul and Rebecca 😊😍
Another fascinating story, so well told. Thank you for bringing the stories of our land to life so vividly.
I think it's your unbridled enthusiasm that brings the story to life, even if the subject matter isn't of personal interest to many of your viewers.
Well presented very interesting narrative. Something I would watch on mainstream TV.
You are a great storyteller but it's the research that goes into each one that make them even better. I went on a school trip to those marshes when I was 13 and that Sweet Track kicked off my love of history!
@paulandrebeccawhitewick not an academic but enthusiasm for a subject encourages research, excellent reporting and your editing is pretty good as well!
I live in Bridgwater. I know a fair bit about the area upto about 50 miles radius. When ever you do a video in this area, you find and show things I didn’t know about. Many thanks.
A fascinating ‘tree falling over’. Great video.
That caisson for the canal lift is epic. Hard to believe, as you say, so much has gone. You can tell Rebecca wasn't there, no way would have got near that swing if she was 😂 Thanks for another great video.
I am a simple Devonian, I see Devon, I click
Anyone could do this sort of video, Paul, yes. But you are the one (or one of the few) actually doing it! And in an appealing way too. So, thank *you* for enlightening us with your curiosity :)
Also: We're not only watching, we're listening! To *you*
Thank you, Paul for fascinating tale of "the line that cuts off Devone and Cornwall." We often think of cutting off Florida but for different reasons.
Lovely presentation as always, Sir.
Crompton Dundon hill, was being used during the Stone Age, Where you had your bit of fun on the swing, there is a spring, that whole hill holds water
Oh wow. I had assumed it goes back some way owing to the geography!
@@pwhitewick it do go back a long way, but with hill that contains fresh water, then it becomes not that surprising, Been told the water comes from up on top of 5 valleys hills
the spirits of those engineers & labourers should smile upon you for all this effort to re discover their endeavours Paul. this is really interesting stuff 👍😁
I'm thankful for your stories ,research and diligence. I look forward to your next video.
Glad you like them!
Awesome and very interesting video about ibritish pre ndustrial history and road-/canalbuilding history at least back to the neolithikum. Thanks for those incredible Footage. Greetings from Germany.
Many thanks!
Awesome video, I grew up a few miles from the Nynehead Boat Lift. I stumbled across it one day on a walk and wondered what on earth it was - no signage back then. Keep up the great work!
Paul, yup you are a storyteller, telling me stuff I didn't need to know, but I'm very glad I now do. Thanks mate, and thank you both!
You deserve a special TH-cam award as you boldly go to new frontiers, right to the middle of a thicket. For a minute I was about to become angry with Google as ai hthey hadn't joined up the two halves of the photo map correctly. I enjoyed your dig into the past, thanks!
Random video of Paul having a little swing in the forest in the middle of the main video! Lol feels like an Easter egg 😂
Cornwall & most of Devon was also nearly vut off during ww2 by a line of pillbox & tank traps it started in Axmouth passing through our school at Axminster going on up to North Devon/ n Somerset.
This is just a brilliant you tube video. Well made edited and super informative. More like this please.
Check out the back catalogue... 300 to catch up with. 🤪
I'd much rather have the sound of the tree falling over as he travels along the pathways --- than the dry scratches of an "academic's" pontificating in printed prose. 😊
We don't need academics to arouse interest, often they stifle it.
You are doing just fine showing us what interests you.
Good work Paul, much appreciated. Thankyou
Absolutely tip top channel this and it just keeps getting better . Well done Mate .
🙏🙏
That was fantastic thanks Paul. All these discoveries are quite exciting. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
...and without you, there was no tree...
Thanks for enlightening this present generation. There's no telling how many more generations are left to experience history. ❤
I take pruning sheers when walking trails to remove dangerous growth only, like the one you encountered. Food for thought.
Paul, your mini documentary's as I call them are always very informative, full of details and always enjoyable. Thank you.
Incredible that you found the Aller boat lift, I had thought that the only brick lift was Nynehead so it was great to see the masonry at Aller😄
Great history well told many thanks!
My brother's house is just off that line, always wondered about it
Merci, tu n’es pas le seul arbre qui tombe en silence. J’espère avoir le temps de remonter l’histoire des routes du Berry.
I will do thank you
I live between Exeter and Torquay. Down here, the old main roads were really narrow and bumpy. New dual roads (A30, A38, A380) were built only around 40 years ago. It’s shocking to think how the West Country had been so effectively cut off until quite recently.
Thank you Paul.
Thanks for that. A very interesting subject and told so well.
my stomping ground - Time team did a great programme on The Sweet Track. Lovely video - thanks.
Thankyou Paul the way you make history come alive is perfect , Your the best little tree in the Woods!!!
Thanks, Paul. I really appreciate what you do.
My pleasure! Thank you
Really liked the format - looking at the same landscape from multiple different eras. Nice work.
very nice to watch again. As an history-enthusiast and enjoyer of nature, this is really great. I should do something similar at my home, just for the enjoyement.
Thx
Thank you,I enjoyed that
Whenever this tree wants to fall over in the woods, we'll be there to hear it.
Lovely video; thank you for sharing!
well that brought back a memory.
Crimson hill tunnel.
Waded 200yds into it about 17 years ago.
was very silted up
Very interesting video Paul .I really liked it keep them coming
Excellent as always, missed you last week, you're part of my Sunday now :)
Got a few in the bag now!
This was a really excellent video! Your presentation was gripping! Music at the right (quiet) level. Great image and sound quality. Possibly your best yet!
You missed the final chapter - when people really did need to cut off Cornwall and Devon: the _Taunton Stop Line._ In 1940, Britain had to defend against possible German invasion. The south coast is largely pebble beaches backed by steep cliffs. The open sandy beaches are in Devon, so there had to be defence lines constructed to prevent German advance after a landing there. The line of the River Axe, Chard canal&railway, Bridgwater&Taunton canal, were reinforced with concrete pill boxes. They had arcs of fire down the linear features, and over the land to the west.
The best place to see all this is Creech St. Michael, just east of Taunton. It has the River Tone, the B&T canal and the main rail line all passing east-west within a 200m of each other. Then spurring to the south are the remains of the Chard canal & railway. The canal is on a raised aqueduct, which still bridges the River Tone, and a local road. The railway is parallel to the canal on a slight embankment. It crossed the Tone on the elegant splayed Five Arch Bridge, that is now just a masonry skeleton, to join the main line railway. If you walk from C St. M east along the B&T canal to Bridgwater, you see a succession of pill boxes that formed the line - the first one is about 1500m east, then 3 more in quick succession.
[footnote (long but not 172 pages :) - 'Creech' is/means 'Creek'. The Tone splits in two, with one stream flowing under a small stony hill, elevated from the river. It is a natural wharf and river access on ground above the swampy floods (which still occur). On the hill is the Church of St. Michael, hence the name. But churches dedicated to St. Michael are always built over previous pagan sites, because St. Michael expelled the devil, so has special powers against the old heathen gods. Examples include Glastonbury Tor, Burrow Mump, Brent Knoll, St. Michael's Mount Cornwall and Mont St. Michel Normandy. The natural setting and naming suggests very ancient occupation of the village].
There is a public footpath in the fields south of the river in C St. M that gives a splendid view of the aqueduct and course of the old railway.
There are a couple of nice walks:
- Short: park in C St. M (there is a car park on Bull St. south of the church, that used to belong to The Canal Inn, now closed and turned into a dwelling). See the existing B&T canal and rail bridge. Drop on to the B&T canal towpath, turn west, there is a pill box where the old Chard canal joins with the existing B&T canal. The road bridge over the canal has bricked-up mine demolition chambers. Then go back to the road, south over the river bridges, and immediately right onto the footpath. Climb steps over the aqueduct, and drop down to view the skeleton of the old railway bridge over the river. There is a pill box at the south end of the canal bridge over the Tone; another over the road bridge to the south; and another clearly visible on the old railway embankment. Perhaps go as far as Ruishton for a pint in the pub (Ruishton Inn), then back to C St. M.
- Long: park in the Taunton 'Hankridge Farm' out-of-town shopping area, near the Odeon cinema. Walk north out the back of the car park onto the river walk, turn left (west). Go over the River Tone _and_ the main line railway on the A38 road bridge (a famous construction in its own right, you can also walk under the bridge, then back up to the A38 from the west side). Continue to The Bathpool pub. Cross the A38 and walk west 100m to the interesting pedestrian swingbridge on the B&T canal. Turn east and walk the towpath, under the M5, to Creech St. Michael. You will see the pill box. Continue a little way, go under the road, then up onto the road. Turn south - follow the route before - over the river bridges, onto the footpath, over aqueduct, railway bridge, Ruishton. Then go from the Ruishton Inn to Ruishton church. There is a footpath back to the river. Cross the fields, under the M5, and you are back at the shopping zone.
That 1800 yard tunnel is yet another of those wild magnificent old structures that your countryside has that always brighten my interest and surprise-
Great metaphor to end with ,👍
Very interesting Paul 🙂🚂🚂🚂
as always, a really interesting video, and had me searching through the Old Map Library and OSMaps to follow along where you were.
Interesting fact about Chard near where you started - it claims the first powered flight by a John Stringfellow who built a steam-powered aircraft in 1848, and managed to fly it around a large room at Oram's Lace Mill.
Thanks!
Great story-telling. Thanks
I Have to visit the Sweet Track! Its on my List for whenever I get back to visit England.
A gem !
I'm pretty new to your channel but so far loving every one, look forward to your future 'waffling', lol. Btw, you seem so natural communicating facts in an engaging, educational way and on camera. Either one is a difficult skill to crack but you seem to have it nailed it. Do you have a background in teaching?
The Somerset and Dorset Railway's original route went from Burnham-on-Sea to near Poole, the intention being to provide the land part of a route from South Wales to Northern France! Obviously, the trans-shipment problems made this impractical for both goods and passengers, but it was intended as a shorter route than going round Land's End, so it fits Paul's criteria.
Very very very interesting. Cheers Paul
The canal structures are very similar to some of the locks and such on the old C&O (Chesapeake and Ohio, if I am not mistaken) Canal near me. It runs along the Potomac River, so it doesn't try to cut off an entire peninsula. We don't have tunnels over its course AFAIK, that's pretty interesting! Many of the canals in the Washington DC and Virginia area were initially designed for horse drawn boats, so the tunnels would have needed to be much larger.
Thank you Paul for a very interesting video
Another enjoyable adventure. Thanks for sharing. I so wanted that mystery line to be an abandoned or unfinished canal.
Me too!
Thank you! Love your videos.
Cheers Paul, and G'day from Australia.
thanks Paul, that was very interesting and an inspiration to go and visit some of the places featured.
Interestingly there once was a boat service into Burnham which connected with a train to Poole which in turn connected with a boat to France. It didn’t last long, though.
Loved it 👍
Hi Paul. I've just discovered you and your site. Brilliant!! I live on the other side of the planet but the Romans in Britain are really interesting to me. (Plus the bits before and after, of course!!) So. Keep it up!
Another fine video Paul & great costume changes
I like this episode but think you missed a trick looking for a route through Somerset. The town and village names give it away. Langport where the tide would run far inland. Then there is Pylle on the Fosse way. A Peel (IoM), pill (Huntspill) or Liverpool, Hartlepool are names of ports I think from Saxon/Viking naming meaning a port. Once you got to Pylle having landed at Moridunum (Axmouth) and walked a couple of days you could wait for the high tide and take a boat across to Caerleon maybe a couple of days paddling through the levels and a days sailing from Burnham instead of the week of walking up to the Severn Crossings. The river levels were higher then as since drainage the land has risen a meter or so.
love this kind of stuff
@ 7.30, i have worked on that site with the waterway recovery group.
That "Roman" field sloping to a tree/waterline is interesting , looks a bit like some stuff time team looked at, I wonder if there were small buildings up the field
This is a very interesting and amazing video Paul / Rebecca.
In the 1970s we had people working industriously at cutting off the Florida peninsula from mainland USA. It was a boondoggle that eventually lost support. In retrospect, they should have dug a moat around Tallahassee instead.
Although I was born in Surrey, my family have a long history from Cornwall. I now live in Devon and wish they would chop off Devon & Cornwall.
Make it a separate country like Wales and Scotland
Oooof. Why so??
Sold job, Mister Tree.
Another super investigation from my computer room. So wish I could do these walks.....
My town in coastal New England, US always shows up in Cornwall videos!
Heck, half of the towns in my county have Cornwall names!
@ the 14:07 map you can see Exeter. Not far from there is Woodbury where Sir Walter Raleigh lived. He is know for setting up the first Colonies in the US. Probably why there are a lot of places where you live that share their name with places around this location including Woodbury.
Really enjoyed this one! I live in Bridgwater so very local for me 👍
The Devon Canal would I guess (haven't measured it yet) be about 51 miles, ie equivalent to the Panama Canal. No massive lake to feed any locks and I suspect both ends have the same tide. Although the time saving would make it uneconomical.
I wasn't sure what to expect from the thumbnail, but this is a fascinating story.
Thanks for another informative video.
Our pleasure!
Very interesting and well produced.
Yet another engrossing 20 minutes! I love AND support this channel.