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The Best Attractions In Aldermaston Wharf

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Aldermaston Wharf Canalside

Avebury Stone Circle

Stonehenge

The Tank Museum

Blenheim Palace

Sudeley Castle

Hawk Conservancy Trust

Aldermaston Wharf is a small multi-parish settlement centred 1.5 miles north-northwest of Aldermaston in West Berkshire, England. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through the settlement with Aldermaston Lock near the centre while the Great Western Railway passes at the northern side where Aldermaston railway station is also located. The A340 road from Basingstoke passes through the village crossing the canal over a single file lift bridge and joins the A4 road which runs just north of the village.
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The Best Attractions In Aldermaston Wharf

1. Aldermaston Wharf Canalside Aldermaston Wharf
2. Stonehenge Amesbury
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet high, 7 feet wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stoneheng...
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3. Hawk Conservancy Trust Weyhill
The Hawk Conservancy Trust is a bird park and conservation charity that cares for and displays birds of prey. It is located in Weyhill, Hampshire, England, near to the A303 road and the town of Andover. Founded as a zoo by local farmer Reg Smith and his wife Hilary, the park was incorporated as the Hawk Conservancy Trust in 2002. It is also the site of the National Bird of Prey Hospital, a veterinary hospital that takes in injured birds of prey.
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4. The Tank Museum Bovington
The Tank Museum is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile north of the village of Wool and 12 miles west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of tanks and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world. It includes Tiger 131, the only working example of a German Tiger I tank, and a British First World War Mark I, the world's oldest surviving combat tank. It is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps and is a registered charity.
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5. Blenheim Palace Woodstock
Blenheim & Woodstock was a railway station constructed in the neoclassical style which served the town of Woodstock and Blenheim Palace in the English county of Oxfordshire. The station, as well as the line, was constructed by the Duke of Marlborough and was privately run until 1897 when it became part of the Great Western Railway. The number of trains serving the station was cut in the late 1930s, and again in 1952 down to only six trains a day. The last train ran on 27 February 1954 adorned with a wreath. The station building was initially converted into a garage and petrol station. Then the forecourt of the site was no longer used as a petrol station, but for used car sales only with a building company using some of the land behind the station. There were proposals for demolishing the b...
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6. Avebury Stone Circle Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans. Constructed over several hundred years in the Third Millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape con...
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7. Sudeley Castle Winchcombe
Sudeley Castle is located in the Cotswolds near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. The present structure was built in the 15th century and may have been on the site of a 12th-century castle. The castle has a notable garden, which is designed and maintained to a very high standard. The chapel, St. Mary's Sudeley, is the burial place of Queen Catherine Parr , the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, and contains her marble tomb. Unusually for a castle chapel, St Mary's of Sudeley is part of the local parish of the Church of England. Sudeley is also one of the few castles left in England that is still a residence. As a result, the castle is only open to visitors on specific dates, and private family quarters are closed to the public. It is a Grade I listed building, and recognised as an internat...
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Aldermaston Wharf Videos

ALDERMASTON PARK BERKSHIRE

Aldermaston Manor house near Reading is a historic building have a great history. for History

Its a fantastic Building and Interior is amazing Its Closed for Public recently for a planned Refurbishment
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Official website is
aldermastonmanor.co.uk/

Kennet & Avon Canal Walk 6 ( Great Bedwyn to Newbury )

Part 6 of my walk along the Kennet & Avon Canal Great Bedwyn to Newbury

#5. Honeymoon trip on a canal boat

Picking up the bride after going through the lock.

Free fishing on a farm

- Chatcull, Eccleshall in Staffordshire have a farm house you can rent for up to 12 people. There is a large lake stocked with fish, tennis court, games room and you are right next door to the farm. Free fishing in their lake is included.

U-boat on Leeds to Liverpool Canal

One of the latest canal boats on the Leeds to Liverpool canal is this U-boat. Seemingly fitted out below as a submarine and the skipper is applying for license to carry passengers up and down the canal from Botany Bay at Chorley. Additional images as spring awkes along the canal from Pin Croft Dyers and Bleachers at Adlington to the Chorley Loop

Kennet and Avon Canal Walk 5

The wonderful camera work at about 7:15 is where I suddenly notice a large, bitey thing on the back of my hand.

Note that from now on, I am paranoid about getting bitten :)

Boats parked at Birmingham Canal

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10235 Wessex Bend
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Enjoy a peaceful retreat from city life and come home to King Oaks, located just 20 minutes from the heart of Bryan – College Station, and a short commute to Houston. Situated on a 1.25 acre cul-de-sac lot, this exquisite custom built 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home offers a study (currently being used as a 4th bedroom), formal dining as well as a breakfast area, spacious bedrooms, open concept layout, split bedroom floor plan, and so much more. The gourmet kitchen features sparkling granite counters, knotty alder cabinetry, stainless appliance package, and huge walk-in pantry. Escape to the master suite and enjoy a relaxing bath in the jetted tub or the morning view of the scenery from the bay window. Combine this masterpiece home with the community’s equestrian trails, stocked fishing pond, and pool with summer kitchen and outdoor fireplace, and you’ll want to call this peaceful treasure “home” as soon as you see it.

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THE HATTON FLIGHT (time lapse)

The Hatton Flight of 21 broad locks takes the Grand Union Canal east towards Warwick descending almost 150 feet in around two miles.

These broad locks were built in the early 1930's replacing the original narrow locks the remains of which can still be seen acting as bypass weirs for the newer locks.

From lock 39 we were joined by nb Mandy who, our more observant viewers will remember, was last seen moored in Bancroft Basin (

We decided to lash the two boats together and performed synchronized, formation narrowboating maneuvers down to the bottom lock. Mind you, with the boats bound stem to stem and stern to stern the skippers needed a certain degree of understanding when it came to steering with two tillers!

I apologise for the quality of the video for the first four locks. Some DICKHEAD (no prizes for guessing who) had the video camera on manual focus.

The Waterman (thewatermanpub.co.uk/) near lock 43 provides great views of the flight and serves food all day.

You can find great photographs and lots of canal information at:

upthecut.co.uk

Foxton Locks.mp4

Foxton Locks (grid reference SP691895) are ten canal locks consisting of two staircases each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 5 km west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough and are named after the nearby village of Foxton. They form the northern terminus of a 20-mile summit level that passes Husbands Bosworth, Crick and ends with the Watford flight. Staircase locks are used where a canal needs to climb a steep hill, and consist of a group of locks where each lock opens directly into the next, that is, where the bottom gates of one lock form the top gates of the next. Foxton Locks are the largest flight of such staircase locks on the English canal system. The Grade II listed locks are a popular tourist attraction and the county council has created a country park at the top. At the bottom, where the junction with the arm to Market Harborough is located, there are two public houses, a shop, trip boat and other facilities. Alongside the locks is the site of the Foxton Inclined Plane, an inclined plane built in 1900 as a solution to various operational restrictions imposed by the lock flight. It was not a commercial success and remained in full-time operation for only ten years. It was dismantled in 1926, but a project to re-create the Plane commenced in the 2000s, since the locks remain a bottleneck for boat traffic.

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