Nelson doesn’t have much to recommend it as a town, but its culverts turned out to be unexpectedly entertaining.
There’s a bit of everything here - old, new, high, low, shallow, deep.
The stream that runs through it, Walverden Water, starts from reservoir A on the map below, joining Pendle Water at B.
Along the way it goes past or under under several former cotton mills, under a railway, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the M65 (yellow line, not built in 1973).
The culverted sections shown in red are about 1.5 km in total and haven’t changed in position much in the last 100+ years, although some bits have been redone in concrete.
Starting down by the river at B, going past a college leads to the first section under the motorway.
The Mrs says she went to this college and has an alarming, if very out of date, knowledge of where to buy weed.
On past the remains of a mill (Bradley Shed).
The only thing left is the chimney - locals were burning plastic in it as I was passing.
Then on through a bunch of stuff.
This bit under Hope Shed and Walverden Mill got unexpectedly deep.
Some sewage-y goings on at the end of that pipe.
Under Bridge Mills.
A ridiculously low bit.
Under the railway, past brook Street Mills and Walverden Shed.
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There’s a bit of everything here - old, new, high, low, shallow, deep.
The stream that runs through it, Walverden Water, starts from reservoir A on the map below, joining Pendle Water at B.
Along the way it goes past or under under several former cotton mills, under a railway, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the M65 (yellow line, not built in 1973).
The culverted sections shown in red are about 1.5 km in total and haven’t changed in position much in the last 100+ years, although some bits have been redone in concrete.
Starting down by the river at B, going past a college leads to the first section under the motorway.
The Mrs says she went to this college and has an alarming, if very out of date, knowledge of where to buy weed.
On past the remains of a mill (Bradley Shed).
The only thing left is the chimney - locals were burning plastic in it as I was passing.
Then on through a bunch of stuff.
This bit under Hope Shed and Walverden Mill got unexpectedly deep.
Some sewage-y goings on at the end of that pipe.
Under Bridge Mills.
A ridiculously low bit.
Under the railway, past brook Street Mills and Walverden Shed.
continued
plenty of diversity in them culverts
