Just got back from a couple of days walking, there is a lovely oasis of nature hemmed in between Lichfield Tamworth and Birmingham called Weeford Canwell & Hints. Step away from the busy A38 road and you are in another world, sadly though it won’t remain the haven it is at present because the High Speed 2 Rail line is going to run straight through it. Having walked the area for years and knowing it very well it’s sad to think this lovely area will be lost as I know it, and all just so folks can save a few minutes on their train journey. Years ago the same area had the misfortune of having the M6 Toll Motorway built through it, to relieve congestion on the normal M6 we were told, well the normal M6 is still as congested as ever because folks don’t like paying the toll fare. In the 1970s this area was a big shooting estate, it held thousands of pheasants and rabbits, the land has been whittled away ever since. With the A38, the M6 Toll Motorway and now HS2 Rail to follow, all flowing through the same area, it’s sad to see the land I have walked so often disappearing.
Starting the walk I had to cross the very busy A38, so busy a cyclist campaigned for a bridge, I haven’t got a clue who he was but thanks to him folks can now cross safely.
The bridge echoes and rattles as you walk across though as the floor is only steel, so much so that a warning notice has been erected for horses. Anyone travelling up the A38 to the Bushcraft Show this weekend will be driving under this bridge.
At last across the A38, this is the countryside that will change forever when HS2 Rail goes right through it.
This field will completely disappear forever, it’s on the exact line of HS2 Rail.
And this field will disappear too, to be replaced with a view of the HS2 Rail line.
And this lovely field will sadly go the same way and be lost forever.
There is a lovely little stream that runs through the valley which holds some nice wild brown trout, I wonder how the fish and stream will fare with the changes. Under the bridge this pic was taken was a 1 ½ lb brown trout.
A pic of camp for the night with hobo stove on the go.
Following the stream after waking I found this old stonework in the undergrowth, perhaps some old relic from an old mill leat or something. A curved dam-like stone wall with a raised arched bridge behind it, funny what you come across.
Homeward bound, something nice about walking leafy lanes.
Thanks for looking, ATB
Starting the walk I had to cross the very busy A38, so busy a cyclist campaigned for a bridge, I haven’t got a clue who he was but thanks to him folks can now cross safely.
The bridge echoes and rattles as you walk across though as the floor is only steel, so much so that a warning notice has been erected for horses. Anyone travelling up the A38 to the Bushcraft Show this weekend will be driving under this bridge.
At last across the A38, this is the countryside that will change forever when HS2 Rail goes right through it.
This field will completely disappear forever, it’s on the exact line of HS2 Rail.
And this field will disappear too, to be replaced with a view of the HS2 Rail line.
And this lovely field will sadly go the same way and be lost forever.
There is a lovely little stream that runs through the valley which holds some nice wild brown trout, I wonder how the fish and stream will fare with the changes. Under the bridge this pic was taken was a 1 ½ lb brown trout.
A pic of camp for the night with hobo stove on the go.
Following the stream after waking I found this old stonework in the undergrowth, perhaps some old relic from an old mill leat or something. A curved dam-like stone wall with a raised arched bridge behind it, funny what you come across.
Homeward bound, something nice about walking leafy lanes.
Thanks for looking, ATB
