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Dist:0.1km<br/>The original proposals for a new bypass road for Stroud would have wiped out the entire route of the canal from here to Wallbridge and made restoration practically impossible. After a very vigorous and effective campaign by the then Stroudwater, Thames & Severn Canal Trust the plans were eventually overturned and an alternative route which only used a short part of the canal route was used. In addition a new bridge [[1052896]] was incorporated into the new road to allow navigation to be restored. The old alignment of the canal has been severed here, and when restoration is complete this will be a short dead end arm.
©David Stowell
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©Steve Daniels
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.2km<br/>View SE, towards Swindon; ex-Great Western main line, Swindon - Gloucester etc. This Halt was closed when the local service Gloucester - Chalford ceased on 2/11/64. The line is still going strong.
©Ben Brooksbank
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is Field Rd at the junction with Cainscross Rd. The large brick bungalow has a splendidly prominent position overlooking the River Frome.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.3km<br/>Bend in the River Frome showing the remains of an old water mill. It's in the shadow of a railway viaduct, and just over the road from Waitrose.
©Tamara Kwan
Dist:0.3km<br/>Maybe the owners are anti royalists and did not want it to be called the Royal Oak. This pub is on the London Rd close to the junction with Bowbridge Rd.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.3km<br/>On London Road near Thrupp.
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.3km<br/>A juxtaposition of signs which I subtitled "cut out the middleman".
©Roger May
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©Roger May
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©Steve Daniels
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking down the steps from London Road. Beyond is the Frome valley; the line of houses is at Butterow.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>The River Frome veers off to the left just before Bowbridge Lock. The lock chamber is in a reasonably good condition, if slightly covered by light undergrowth. The top end of the lock and length of the Thames & Severn Canal above here was the first to be tackled by the then Stroudwater Canal Society (the forerunner of today's Cotswold Canal's Trust) when they commenced campaigning for restoration in the 1970s.
©David Stowell

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