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Leaflet 990602
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION SOMERSETSHIRE Name: ............................................................................................. Date:..................Telephone (inc STD code): .................................. COAL CANAL I/We wish to apply for membership of the Society and have completed the Banker’s Order Form below. SOCIETY The membership subscription rates are: £7.50 (family/individual) or Registered Charity No 1047303 £5.00 (senior citizens/student) £150 or 4 annual amounts of £37.50 (life membership) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– GIFT AID DECLARATION : I do/do not (delete as applicable) want the charity to treat all donations I have made since 6th April 2001 and all donations I make from the date of this declaration as Gift Aid Donations. I do pay an amount of income tax or capital gains tax equal to the tax reclaimed on my donations, and will inform the Society if I cease to pay sufficient tax. Signed:...............................................................Date:........................... Membership Applicant’s Address:.................................................. ......................................................................................................... ......................................................................................................... .............................................................Postcode............................. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– BANKERS ORDER (Do not detach) To:(name & address of your bank)................................................. -
February 2004 Chairman’S Column E-Mail Contact Pay 50P (Which Is Passed to the Landlord)
Southampton Canal Society Newsletter Issue 379 February 2004 Chairman’s Column E-mail Contact pay 50p (which is passed to the Landlord). Attendees Further to the item in last month’s Newsletter, I am should also take along a raffle prize. Details of the pleased to advise that my computer is up and running Group’s very interesting programme are included in again and I am now able to use my e-mail facilities. the Waterways Diary in this Newsletter. For further It appears that I have lost all incoming e-mails information please contact Jon Van de Geer (01722 between 7 and 27 December so, if you sent me an e- 412841) or Ron and Myra Glover (01722 710322 – mail during that period, would you please mind re- e-mail: [email protected]). sending it. Thanks. National Association of Boat Owners Skittles Evening In my May 2002 Chairman’s Column I advised Following the success of the two Society Skittles members that I had been appointed to the position of Evenings held during 2003 I am delighted that Southern Regional Secretary, and therefore a Council Angela Faull has organised a further event on Friday Member, with NABO (National Association of Boat 12 March. Full details are included in this Owners). From the outset I had let it be known Newsletter. The previous two evenings were sell-outs within NABO Council that I would undertake those so to avoid missing out, please contact Angela without duties for a year or so and then review the situation.. delay to book your place. -
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WEIGH-HOUSE THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL SOCIETY No 39 SPRING 2004 24 1 ******************************************************************************************* The Somersetshire Coal Canal Society was founded in January1992 with EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE the aim: ‘TO FOCUS AN INTEREST ON THE PAST, PRESENT AND CHAIRMAN – – MIKE CHAPMAN FUTURE OF THE OLD SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL’ 51, Newton Road, Twerton, Bath BA2 1RW ( 01225 426948 E-mail: [email protected] The Society is aimed at those people who are interested in finding out more about the history of the canal, preserving what is still there and SECRETARY – VACANT walking the parts that are still accessible to the public. TREASURER – DAVID CHALMERS The Society does not aim to restore the canal, but to protect the remain- ‘Shalom’ 40 Greenleaze, Knowle Park, Bristol BS4 2TL ing structures (Midford Aqueduct, Combe Hay Locks etc.) and line of the ( 0117972 0423 canal from decay, dereliction and vegetation. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY – LAURIE GIBNEY ******************************************************************************************* 1, Hillcrest Close, Bristol BS48 2HP Registered Charity No 1047303 ( & Fax: 01275 798479 E-mail: [email protected] Registered under the Data Protection Act 1984 No A2697068 Affiliated to the Inland Waterways Association No 0005276 WORK PARTY ORGANISER – BOB PARNELL 34, Wedgewood Road, Twerton, Bath BA2 1NX ******************************************************************************************* 01225 428055 ( MEMBERSHIP -
Weigh-House the Magazine of the Somersetshire Coal Canal Society
WEIGH-HOUSE THE MAGAZINE OF THE SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL SOCIETY No 49 JANUARY 2008 ******************************************************************************************* The Somersetshire Coal Canal Society was founded in January1992 with EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE the aim: ‘TO FOCUS AN INTEREST ON THE PAST, PRESENT AND CHAIRMAN – – MIKE CHAPMAN FUTURE OF THE OLD SOMERSETSHIRE COAL CANAL’ 51, Newton Road, Twerton, Bath BA2 1RW ( 01225 426948 E-mail: [email protected] The Society is aimed at those people who are interested in finding out more about the history of the canal, preserving what is still there and SECRETARY – VACANT walking the parts that are still accessible to the public. TREASURER – DAVID CHALMERS The Society aims to preserve the remaining structures of the canal ‘Shalom’ 40 Greenleaze, Knowle Park, Bristol BS4 2TL (Midford Aqueduct, Combe Hay Locks etc.) and to protect the line of the ( 0117 972 0423 canal from decay, dereliction and vegetation. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY – PATRICK MOSS ******************************************************************************************* IMA Transport Planning Registered Charity No 1047303 11 Kingsmead Square Registered under the Data Protection Act 1984 No A2697068 Bath Affiliated to the Inland Waterways Association No 0005276 BA1 2AB Inland Revenue reference code for tax purposes: CAD72QG E-mail: [email protected] ******************************************************************************************* WORK PARTY ORGANISER – BOB PARNELL MEMBERSHIP FEES 34, Wedgwood Road, Twerton, -
STONE and COAL - a Walk from Combe Down to Combe Hay Charles Hiscock
STONE AND COAL - a walk from Combe Down to Combe Hay Charles Hiscock This is an account of a walk from Combe Down, Bath to of the tramway that Smith built to bring his stone down Combe Hay on the Somersetshire Coal Canal and was one from Kingham Field to the Somersetshire Coal Canal. The of the field trips of the Bath Geological Society’s tramway is marked by occasional grooved oolitic blocks programme for 2003, on 18th October. on which the wooden guideways of the track rested. About 20 of us, members of the Society and the Bristol The Fuller’s Earth outcrop is now covered by extensive Naturalists’ Society, met on a grey Saturday morning at landslips which, in very prolonged wet weather, still move Combe Down parish church, with a brisk, chilly easterly downslope. The outcrop is about 40 metres thick, but only breeze making us thankful that we had put on an extra thin bands were used for fulling - absorbing the impurities layer or two of clothing as we awaited the start of the day. from wool - as it is only these horizons that contain the Our leader for the day was Dr. David Workman, the bentonite which is a mineral, derived from fine grained Chairman of the Bath Geological Society, who explained volcanic ash from eruptions in the North Sea area and the that we would walk from Combe Down to the Cam Brook south-west of England. valley and then follow the old Somersetshire Coal Canal to Combe Hay locks. He told us that, by 1729, Combe Down Approaching Tucking Mill, we glimpsed the trackbed of was a hive of activity, with many small quarries working the Somerset and Dorset railway as it climbed to Combe the good quality Combe Down Oolite for building. -
Discovering Bath's Lost Canal – Somersetshire Coal Canal
DISCOVERING BATH’S LOST CANAL Derrick Hunt and Liz Tuddenham Along the southern edge of the Bathscape area lies a lost canal waiting to be rediscovered. The Somersetshire Coal Canal was built at the same time as the Kennet & Avon Canal, but is far less well known. Although it closed over 100 years ago, the remains of it are still visible from public footpaths. THE PROBLEM PLANNING The coal mine owners of Somerset were staring Canals have to be built level, which makes them ruin in the face. The year was 1792 and the scene ideal for easy walking but gave the early was a meeting of the mine proprietors at the Old canal planners a major headache. Radstock and Down Inn near Chilcompton. There was plenty of Paulton were both much higher than Dundas coal in Somerset and there were ready markets Basin, so the canal level would normally have for it in Bath and all across southern England, but been brought down by a series of locks, which the problem was the transport. Welsh coal was lowered the boats by letting water out of a large flooding into Bath, via. Bristol and up the River masonry chamber. This meant wasting a lot of Avon by boat, far cheaper than Somerset coal could water which, at Paulton, would have to be taken be transported by pack horse through the rough from the Cam Brook. The millers along the Cam muddy lanes and byways that ran from Timsbury, had the legal rights to the water, which could not Paulton and Radstock to Bath. -
Bathscape Landscape Conservation Action Plan
LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION ACTION PLAN SCHEME PLAN Including Project Plan Summaries Contents Contents CONTENTS 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 4 MANAGEMENT 91 INFORMATION 2 INTRODUCTION 11 4.1 International plans and policies 95 2.1 Participation and consultation 14 4.2 Local plans and policies 96 2.2 The partnership 16 4.3 Parties with interest in the 102 2.3 Bathscape scheme vision 20 bathscape work areas 2.4 Gaps and limitations 22 2.5 Documents to read alongside 24 5 STATEMENT OF 103 the lcap SIGNIFICANCE 3 THE BATHSCAPE 25 5.1 Landscape 105 AREA, ITS HERITAGE 5.2 Biodiversity 108 AND ITS PEOPLE 5.3 Geology 111 5.4 Archaeological and historical 112 3.1 The bathscape boundary 27 significance 3.2 Landscape heritage 30 5.5 How do people currently 114 3.3 Landscape character types 32 use the landscape? 3.4 Geological heritage 60 5.6 The value people place on 115 3.5 Archaeology 64 the landscape 3.6 Built heritage 65 5.7 How people view the 116 3.7 Biodiversity 67 significance of the landscape 3.8 Cultural and artistic 71 associations 6 RISKS AND 119 3.9 Health and sightseeing 73 OPPORTUNITIES 3.10 The landscape through time 75 3.11 People in the bathscape 80 6.1 Threats to the landscape and 121 3.12 Identifying needs 86 opportunities to address these 3.13 Barriers 88 6.2 Local issues 122 6.3 Broader issues 125 2 Landscape Conservation Action Plan Landscape Conservation Action Plan 3 Contents Executive Summary 7 AIMS, OBJECTIVES 131 9 LEGACY 217 AND OUTCOMES 9.1 Project legacy 220 7.1 Vision 133 9.2 Organisational legacy 224 7. -
SCC Teachers Pack4
TheSomersetshireCoalCanal AnEducationalGuide tothe History,Geography,EngineeringandArchæology ofthe SomersetshireCoalCanal ProducedbytheSomersetshireCoalCanalSociety SCCS/141215 THEGEOGRAPHYOFTHECANAL The canal was planned to have two branches: SCCS/141215 The Northern Branch Started at Paulton and Timsbury Basin and followed the valley of the Cam Brook through Radford, Camerton, Dunkerton and Combe Hay to Midford The Southern Branch Started at Radstock and followed the valley of the Wellow Brook through Foxcote, Wellow and Twinhoe to Midford They met at Midford and continued through Monkton Combe to join the Kennet & Avon Canal near Limpley Stoke. Fig. 1 Map of the Somersetshire Coal Canal Page 2 THEHISTORYOFTHESOMERSETSHIRECOALFIELDS Coal was mined in Somerset as long ago as Roman times and by the 1430s it was being dug in the Kilmersdon district. At first, coal was picked off the surface or dug from shallow pits. Later, better production methods made it possible to mine coal at greater depths. By the end of the seventeenth century, 10,000 tons annually were mined in this area. Coal was found near Radstock in 1763 when a shaft just north of the village struck a viable seam and Upper Radstock pit (later known as Old Pit) was established. By 1790 there were pits in Radstock , Camerton, Dunkerton, Foxcote, Priston, Timsbury and Writhlington, but mining across the whole area suffered from two major disadvantages: 1) The coal seams were very thin making it difficult to work 2) Roads in the area were bad, adding to transport costs and making the coal expensive. In 1792, a new canal was planned in South Wales, which would allow Welsh coal be brought by boat to Bath and Bristol cheaper than Radstock coal could be delivered by cart or pack horse.