Lancaster Canal

We arrived at lunchtime and decided on a circular walk through Levens Hall Park in the afternoon.

This image marks the half-way point. Here on a ridge above the river there is a rather fine stone bridge over nothing in particular at the side of a field grazed by sheep. In fact it was constructed over the Lancaster Canal, which has long since dried up and vanished here. This canal was one of the less successful, and was never completed as originally intended.

It was a good walk. The River Kent was in full spate - there has been a lot of rain. The leaves are turning. It’s an acorn year, with lots of beech mast and sweet chestnuts evident too. And it was good meeting the bagot goats again, a speciality of the Park. It helped that the early rain gave way to sunshine.