Redwith to Waen Wen (Pant) section.

This next dry section is included for interest (and future restoration). As changes occur you will find additional photo's and information added to the page.

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After leaving Redwith, the dry canal bed has been overgrown with willows and scrub. Canal House Bridge (Bridge No. 84) also known as Pryles Bridge, is the next bridge that you encounter.

This view behind Lloyd's Animal Feeds mill is typical of this section. There is a good depth in the channel and restoration shouldn't be much of a problem providing that the "puddle" hasn't suffered too much damage.

Further along the same section. This photo, showing scrub and fallen trees, also shows water in the bed of the channel. Although the water is only shallow, the channel is deep and well preserved.

As we approach Crickheath, we find a wide section that has been invaded by willows. This is the site of the wharf that provided the trans-shipment point for the tramway that carried lime and stone from the limestone quarries at Porthywaen.

Another view of the wharf area showing the channel that is quite deep and holding a considerable amount of water. It has once more been invaded by scrub and willow.

Leaving the tramway wharf, we can see Crickheath Bridge (Bridge No. 85) in the distance. The towpath is in good condition and is easy to walk but trees have completely overgrown the channel. Beyond the bridge is the hamlet of Crickheath together with it's wharf. Through the bridge, dwellings line both banks of the canal which at this point lies in a shallow cutting.

Another view of the area taken from the same site as the last photo but looking across the canal at the adjacent bank. This photo also shows water in the channel which is of a good depth.

Scene from under Crickheath Bridge looking in a southerly direction. The site of Crickheath Wharf is seen on the opposite bank. Under the bridge, a narrow channel has been cut through the debris to allow water to drain and keep the level shallow on the north side of the bridge.

Crickheath Wharf. Showing some remains of the stone built wharf, now a domestic garden, edging the canal. This attractive view was taken from the Crickheath Bridge area looking in a southerly direction

Just past the village we come to another "blockage". A farmer has pushed through the bank on the towpath side and filled the bed of the canal with soil to give him easy access to fields on the opposite bank.

Travelling a jungle path ? No, just the towpath as you approach the site of the next dropped bridge on this dry section.

This area of Crickheath is the subject of a WRG camp, summer 2000 . See my main website newspage for details and photo's of the work undertaken. (Use the link at the bottom of the page to go to main website.)

Site of the dropped Bridge number 86 near to New House. A pipe carries the drainage water from the canal bed through, under the road and into a manhole on the other side.

Bridge number 87. Waen Wen road bridge is the last bridge you meet before the village of Pant. The bed is dry and covered by a dense growth of scrub and small trees but the towpath is easy to follow on foot.

Bramble and scrub are in abundance as we reach Waen Wen. This is the scene that meets you as you approach a very wide area of canal, now covered by willows but skirted by the road on the western side of the cut.

Also at Waen Wen, on the embankment, adjacent to the very wide section of the de-watered canal, there is a let off valve that drains water into a nearby stream.

This page will be updated as and when any new information comes to hand.

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