| Walk: | Levens Hall, Sedgwick Tunnel and remnants of the Lancaster Canal beyond the cut off point at Tewitfield, also the Aqueduct at Sedgfield. | ||
| Start Point: | Levens Hall car park | Grid Reference: | SD 495 851 |
| Distance: | 8.2 miles | Ascent: | 970 feet |
| Time: | 5 hours | ||
| Weather: | Fine, sunny and warm. | ||
| Comments: | Our party of 19 set off from the car park at Levens Hall, where we had been given permission to park, crossing the A6 to head for the impressive High Barns with its Sunflower by the front door and on to Hincaster Hall before reaching the old canal tunnel. This still has water in it but is dry either end. After a while we came to quite a long section that still had water. This shows how it should be, with its wildlife and vegetation and scenery all reflected in the canal. We left it to circle over the rolling countryside before rejoining the line of the old canal at Sedgwick and the old aqueduct. But no water, and no evidence of the canal, except an old bridge in the middle of a field, where it [the canal] had been. We soon entered Levens Park, with its deer and Bagot goats and River Kent that we followed back to the Hall. | ||
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Ian briefs the group at Levens Hall car park
High Barns with its sunflower
Hincaster Hall
Hincaster Tunnel
Coffee stop . . .
by part of the canal still with water in it . . .
enjoyed by a family of swans
Heading for Old Hall near Endmoor
Skittlegill
Strung out on Skittlegill
The aqueduct at Sedgwick
Sedgwick from the aqueduct
Tea break by the old bridge with no canal
Cottages in Levens Park
Bagot goats
River Kent running through the park