enjoy the view

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Lockkeeper's cottage (click for more views of this walk)

Brimscombe, Golden Valley & Thames & Severn Canal

Notes and points of interest

Thames and Severn Canal The canal is in a variable state of repair, with some sections looking much as it would have been in the heyday of canal transport. Other sections are weeded up or virtually dry. But the views on this route give a strong impression of the past importance of this national artery, leading as it does, past many relics of historic industry that once relied on the canal for shipping its goods out to distant markets.

Brimscome this country village carries many clues to a busier, more grimy past when Brimscombe was an industrial centre for the region. The word 'port', applied to one of the industrial estates, may sound pretentious these days, but this section of the canal was formerly an important part of a busy shipping network.