History
Crouching between a high rise estate and a busy dual carriageway, the slow-flowing river looks nondescript until it comes to a large caged concrete tunnel, thrusting under the city's ring road. This is the where the River Sherbourne, once vital for early settlers, disappears from view and becomes a hidden river: contained, covered and contaminated. Historians believe the river was much larger in Anglo-Saxon times and would have supplied fish and drinking water to small hamlets in the Forest of Arden, the forerunners to Coventry itself. Despite its current condition, classified by the Environment Agency as "poor" (or two out of five for quality), some believe the Sherbourne could be liquid gold for tourism in the regenerating city. The river, which disappeared into a culvert under city centre development in the 1960s.
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So after meeting up in carpark with @Punk @Yorrick @elhomer12 @Lost Explorer @slayaaaa @Alley @FreshFingers @Ferret @albino-jay @tarkovsky @tallginge @chills @Drew howe (i think that's everyone) we were all on our way for 3 hours into the murky depths of the River Sherbourne. A great time had by all and the looks we got when walking back through the town makes it all more memorable.
Cheers for a good day out, here's a few photos,
thanks for looking
Crouching between a high rise estate and a busy dual carriageway, the slow-flowing river looks nondescript until it comes to a large caged concrete tunnel, thrusting under the city's ring road. This is the where the River Sherbourne, once vital for early settlers, disappears from view and becomes a hidden river: contained, covered and contaminated. Historians believe the river was much larger in Anglo-Saxon times and would have supplied fish and drinking water to small hamlets in the Forest of Arden, the forerunners to Coventry itself. Despite its current condition, classified by the Environment Agency as "poor" (or two out of five for quality), some believe the Sherbourne could be liquid gold for tourism in the regenerating city. The river, which disappeared into a culvert under city centre development in the 1960s.
Explore
So after meeting up in carpark with @Punk @Yorrick @elhomer12 @Lost Explorer @slayaaaa @Alley @FreshFingers @Ferret @albino-jay @tarkovsky @tallginge @chills @Drew howe (i think that's everyone) we were all on our way for 3 hours into the murky depths of the River Sherbourne. A great time had by all and the looks we got when walking back through the town makes it all more memorable.
Cheers for a good day out, here's a few photos,
thanks for looking
