A few quick post additions. 1. Go visit The H&G website. www.h-g-canal.org.uk/ 2. Orchard.... oooops 3. Yup Dave and the Team are aware there was a lock just to the north of the Newent site we bumped into them and immediately south of the coal branch junction. 4. Tunnels.... coming soon.

I was a member of H&G Canal trust for years, helped dig and all sorts. It all just faded away in the 2000s. Most skew bridge on any canal in europe, just down from Yarkhill. All of the retail park in Hereford was built ready with the canal cut and filled with gravel so it's easy to put back in water. Jewsons yard inhabits the old canal basin, even the brickwork is still there. The big tunnel under the college green is there, and several of the bridges still have their number plaques. Come and say "hi" when you investigate the rest.

Back in the late eighties myself and a number of venture scouts helped clear a lot of vegetation from the section on the northern side of the A4103 at Monkhide and we paddled a couple of kayaks through under the road and into the next section that the then HGC had cleared.

It was fortuitous that you ran into some local experts on this canal. Thank you to Ginny, Dave and Tony. Especially the latter two who were able to give so much more historical information on this canal. I rate this as one of your more excellent videos.

Just simmering my gravy while I absorb more P&R goodness. Happy Sunday everyone!

I prefer the term "Disused" rather than "Abandoned"... we can still enjoy the remains of the old infrastructure and try and imagine what it was like in days gone by.

Thanks, guys, happy adventures!

A Giant Orchid Orchard! How delightful!

I'm excited to get to the Hereford end. I used to go along the side of the canal with my Nan in the early 70's (St John's bingo) across the back of Merton Meadow and Widemarsh St. It was all overgrown but the remains of some locks were still there rotting away. Nan lived on Moor St

There's also a tunnel at Hereford called Aylestone Tunnel on the old holmer trading estate, the other end I believe is on private property called Painter Bros and is looked after by Network rail as it goes under the mainline, and a lovely section of canal that skirts around the perimeter of PC world in Hereford, also a plaque on a bridge at the top end of Widemarsh Street

Another relaxing Sunday evening ramble through lovely spring flowers and countryside . Fascinating as always and promise of more tunnels too! Thank you both for all you do to entertain and inform .

Great work. I grew up in Ledbury and find the detail you've provided about the Canal and it"s history wonderful. Thank you very much.

Hi Rebecca and Paul, I really like your stuff - I lived in Swindon from 2000 to 2008 and loved the history etc. of that whole area. Please keep making this quality output.

Canal restoration - it’s just extreme gardening 😀 Another fantastic video; and how fortuitous to find experts on your travels!

Love the enthusiasm!

Narrator-Paul has a really calming voice.

A very enjoyable video - thank you! I live in Newent and my late father David Bick wrote the first book about the canal in 1979, which helped increase local interest. Another more up to date book has since been written by Richard Skeet. Regarding the Newent coalfield which was served by the canal branch, there is still evidence of the spoil heap from the shaft in a field just east of White House Farm. Until a few years ago the brick-lined shaft was still open but has since been filled in. There is an information board just inside the field close to the gate. As far as I know the mine failed because of the quantity of groundwater (which later was used to hydrate Newent!) and rock faulting which meant the coal seam was displaced to inaccessible depths. I look forward to your video about the tunnels. My father explored the Oxenhall tunnel in the 1960s in a rowing boat! He went about half way through before encountering an impassable roof collapse.

That bridge is amazing.

Facinating. I had a look along the canal by Newent 20 years ago and its so lovely to see the lock and lock keeper’s cottage fully restored.

I came across it in 1991 when I was on a site investigation job!

Been looking forward to this one.Living in Gloucester nice to see you both up in the shire.l am sure you have read David Bick books on the canal and about the coal fields of Newent and Ross.Thank you for this vlog of the canal and all the interesting places look forward to watching the next ones about the tunnels. 👍👍😁😁

look forward to Sunday nights now a real treat!

Wild garlic, bluebells, goldfinches, chiffchaffs and blackcaps. Spring is at its best.

Another interesting video. Many thanks.

Love the Skew Bridge reminds me of the skew bridge not far from me on the Trent and Mersey Canal which the Railway goes over it. Nice video Paul and Rebecca.

I so enjoy a virtual walk with you, the history you uncover is tremendous, you actually record things for future generations, bless you in your work you lovely people.

It's great to see the skew bridge, a superb piece of engineering. I can't wait to see the video on the tunnels. When I discovered that her uncle had lived at the cottage at the Newent end of the southern tunnel, I was able to take my mother there. She had never known that she'd had rellies in the area where she'd come to live. Thanks, Whitewicks 👍

I had no idea that this canal, which I have been aware of since childhood fifty years ago, was anything beyond a ruin. I hope it comes back to life in time. Fascinating. Best wishes from George in Herefordshire.

Happened on your channel by accident. Love the content and how you share the topic with such passion and banter. Spent my teens in Gloucester area in the 70s so some familiar areas. Now another devoted follower.

Fascinating set of finds, it is great to see canals being restored like this and plans to open more up. Plus it's also good to hear someone else refer to an accomodation bridge. I found one in one of my early videos and had to look up why it was called that.

Lovely vid from the best county in England ( biased! ). Now you just need to stay a few more weeks to cover the disused railways. Leominster to Kington, Hereford to Hay to name but a few...

You bring my Sunday evenings to life.

Excellent stuff .my sister lived in Hereford. Stunning place lovely people lovely countryside lovely canal bits x

That was an interresting vlog helped by chance of meeting the right bunch of people. Always nice to see initiatives to restore canals. Hope this time they will succeed!

Another lovely, entertaining and informative video. 👌 (There's a happy Patron there for you.) And what a very happy and great coincidence that you bumped into Ginny, Tony and Dave! 😃💫

Yes that was very interesting Thank you

Always good to have local experts who can interpret a load of stinging nettles into 19th century infrastructure

hello again Paul and Rebecca , great interesting video as always , well done and thank you guys

Lovely blend of history and nature, such a treat to watch. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Lidar of the area around Oxenfall shows some interesting features - I wonder if the lock up to the coal branch isn't under the (new?) road near where it first branches off? But you can see where the lock pits are on the main canal.

Thank you folks for making this wonderful episode today and taking us out in the Beautiful English countryside, Cheers from California !

@ 9.55, beware of what sandpaper tongues can do to car paintwork!

Great to see you guys out & about again. I think I've missed a few of your recent videos - apologies. 😱

So you go out to find a canal and not only find it but make three new friends who are walking history books on the canal. What a fine day!

You should check out Grantham to Nottingham canal, its a beautiful walk, the view to Belvoir Castle is fabulous 😀

Great video I am from the Malvern Hills, currently have been living in New Zealand for 7 years but in 13 months time I will be returning to the Malverns area be a live aboard narrow boater. So this project seams right up my alley 😁

Again this was most enjoyable to watch and listen to, scenery beautiful and info really interesting. Loved your interview with the lady and gentlemen. Thank you.

I've been through the Ashperton tunnel several times about 30 years ago, in a Canadian canoe. We were undertaking bat surveys. the tunnel seemed to be in good condition, when compared with some of the railway tunnels in the area.

This was an amazing adventure! So lucky you met those wonderful people. I just love the history you uncover. Watching from the 🇺🇸

Very good 🙂🚂🚂🚂

This was a great video and lucky to meet the local folks. Nothing like this in my part of Alberta.

Ooooohhhh, wild garlic, (Ransome), in the wood you walked through and didn't mention it!!!

yet again another brilliant informative video by you both....i really hope the Trust can get a lot more help and re open this canal....History at its finest...

Thank you for this, Rebecca and Paul et al. Looking forward to the related vids.

Thanks for another really interesting video. Meanwhile, while out walking at the Mouldon Hill Country Park at Swindon, I was delighted to discover that the park includes access to the aqueduct where the Cirencester bound Thames & Severn canal cross the River Ray. The restored Swindon and Cricklade railway also terminates in that park, so you get two vintage transport attractions together.

You should go and check out the Lichfield & Hatherton canal that is in full restoration mode doing amazing things around Lichfield at the moment. It was a canal that was part of the Birmingham Canal Navigation and was abandoned in the 1960s, but has a huge community of volunteers trying to restore it (it even has the actor of Poirot fame David Suchet as Vice President). You could also combine it with a look around Chasewater reservoir that fed the canal which had a large number of collieries in the area but is now a beautiful parkland area.

Thanks Paul and Rebecca for another brilliant and very interesting video! Look forward to seeing part two soon!

thank you a great video - it does get even better when you meet the locals

Thank you for the walk along tour, was a real walk back in time. Cheers mates!

Very, very interesting and enjoyable to watch. What a wonderful addition to the canal network this would be 👍

Brilliant, really enjoyed this.

I'm from Ludlow and grew up walking the pipe track as it's known. Not sure if it's been mentioned but if you had walked a little further there is a second viaduct.

Thanks for visiting my home town (Newent) - have walked the section from Newent to Oxenhall many times over the years, can remember Oxenhall lock and cottage and the aqueduct looking a lot more dilapidated. Just a short walk eastwards from there is the site of Newent Railway station (behind the timber yard). The platforms are still present. We grew up in the House in front of LFI (opposite Catholic Church). Very informative video, will look forward to finding out more about the tunnels in due course.

So good 👍 so interesting love ❤ Sunday at 5 allway a treat 😊

Great video. Nice to see you round my home county. 😁 Looking forward to see you do the disused railway along there as well 😁

Really nice stuff. It would be great to see it restored, but it does look like many years of graft...

Canals in southern England had problems, NO water feed from up hills to replace what was lost from locks, and etc. So they dried up after needed

Great Video, also so close to the abandoned tunnel under the malvern hills

Cows without calfs are fine, with calfs may well atack you to defend the calfs !

Excellent video! Coxes Lock mill in Addlestone also made use of the canal to feed it, something that caused problems and disagreements in its time.

Superb Woodland in the beginning full of Bluebells and other Bulbous Flowers

Lovely, you've been an ideal Sunday dinner companion while I munch away.

Good luck to tye guys with the restoration project, seems fate you met them, a lot of work ahead. I'd say 100% there would be a lock yo the coal canal :)

Absolutely super thank you

Should you choose to visit the Cauldon Canal in Staffordshire you will find that the Consall Mill was powered by water from the canal.

Lovely.......as all your vids are. Many thanks.

Brilliant video as always. :)

Hi Paul and Rebecca great video, I was just wondering if Rebecca still has her shop and you tube channel as i have not seen it for sometime roy denmark.

I really hope they restore that canal 👍

Brilliant video

You could make a couple of videos on a canal dig , that would be great to see.

"De-Water"! don't you mean drain? hehe. anyway. what an interesting video. Not an area I know but what a great canal story. Canal restoration is a really good purposeful pursuit I reckon. That branch that was 10ft higher. do you think there was a lock or did they just chuck the load down manually onto other wagons/barges? could be? was a long time ago. great stuff Paul & Rebecca. you 2 seem to cover this stuff so well. (surely waiting for the phone call from "Discovery Channel").

Some sections of this canal are in remarkable condition and won't take a lot to restore them. However other sections have succomed to later development, particularly the coming of the railway, and here a complete re-engineering would be needed. It must be said that it was not a successful canal economically. The area is rural and the eventual arrival of the railways finished it for good. The fact that it is in a rural setting ensured that long lengths were left undisturbed.

The canal feeding a mill waterwhe isn't unique. The mill at Portland basin in Ashton-under-lyne had a waterwheel that was driven by the canal until steam came along.

I wondered if you'd have a go at this one. I used to explore it and the Hereford to Gloucester rail line from the Hereford end 30 odd years ago.

That’s a real short ‘navigate’ for those landlocked boats 😲

There is a great book about this canal 'Hereford and Gloucester Canal' by David Bick published by The Oakwood Press. Also includes a small section at the end about the railway line. Great & interesting video 👍🏻.

aw don’t worry about them, the cows just wanted to meet the famous couple!

Thanks 🙏

Going through cider country, not far from much markle and Weston’s Cider.

Once again thank you for another interesting and enjoyable video. PS Paul, where did you get that shirt, l love it.

good video

Jenny Tony and Dave. Hope you get loads of help and funds. From Bakersfield California USA.

Another winner!

01:10 - Paul and Trinity walks in the dried up canal. :-)

Orchid = orchard?

I am a member of The Cotswold Canal Trust which has just celebrated its 50 birthday.

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Hi Paul and Rebecca I live about 800m from monkhide !!! I am in France at the moment but would have liked to join you. Great video, the canal crosses under the main road between stretton grandison and ashperton. On the long straight road from ashperton to the main Hereford to Worcester road you can see a raised profile across watery lane - I think that the canal was built on the raised bank - not sure does anyone know ??

Amazing video