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DISCOVER
the beautiful and historic Limpley Stoke & Midford Valleys
BY FOOT, BIKE OR BOAT
DISCOVER the Canal
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Dundas and Avoncliff Aqueducts
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Wooden and iron drain plug pulleys.
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1813 water powered pump at Claverton.
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Tow rope marks in the corners of bridges.
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Quarter mile posts showing distance from the river Thames at Reading.
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Widcombe flight of locks accessing river navigation to Bristol.
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Two swing bridges - one of the earliest known uses of the ball bearing.
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The junction with the part restored Somerset Coal Canal at Dundas Wharf featuring cast iron crane.
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Elegant cast iron bridges through Sydney Gardens (Holbourne Museum).
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Stop gates where sections of the canal were closed for maintenance, together with stop planks on racks re-using rails from the Avon and Gloucester Tramway.
DISCOVER the Cyclepaths
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National Route 24 Dundas to Radstock and Salisbury.
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National Route 4 London to Fishguard via Bradford-on-Avon and Bath.
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National Route 244 The Two Tunnels Greenway.
DISCOVER the River Valleys
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The River Avon, its tributaries: The Bybrook, Midford Brook and the River Frome.
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Weirs and Mills at Bathampton, Warleigh, Monkton Combe, Limpley Stoke and Avoncliff.
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The A36 trunk road built in 1830 as a turnpike by Macadam with its impressive viaduct over Midford Brook.
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Tramway routes bringing stone to the canal at Bathampton, Conkwell (Dundas), Murhill and Avoncliff.
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Brown's Folly on the hill above Bathford.
DISCOVER the Railways
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The viaduct at Tucking Mill and the Midford crossover: Canal, Somerset and Dorset railway and Camerton branch.
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The disused stations at Limpley Stoke and Midford.
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The short divided tunnel beneath the embankment o Dundas Aqueduct.
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The junction with the closed Camerton branch, on which the film 'The Titfield Thunderbolt' was made.
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Brunel's line from the south coast joining the London line at Bathampton.