Walking The Pipe in Shropshire

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare Balding walks part of the Elan Valley pipeline: 73 miles of Victorian engineering running water from mid Wales into the city of Birmingham. Clare is walking with artist Kate Green who has spent the summer walking the pipe and getting to know people and places along the way. They're walking a stretch that runs around the town of Ludlow in the Welsh Marches. Joining them are Andy Holman who runs a horse rescue centre on his land which holds part of the pipelines, and Tim Hipkiss part of a group of walkers called the Laura Ashley Pate Spreaders who she encountered as they were walking the pipeline too.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

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0:43.1	It's September. I love September. I love days like this. It's really crisp. It's crunchy.
0:49.1	There's going to be crunching underfoot. It's warm, but fresh. It's perfect for walking. And I've come here to Shropshire
0:58.0	to meet Kate Green. Kate, because over that hedge you've just said to me, that red brick building
1:04.8	is what? That is a red brick well house which was built by the Birmingham Corporation I think that one was probably says
1:12.2	1902 on it and that's when this stretch of the Allen Valley aqueduct was constructed and this has become
1:20.3	more than an interest for you the pipeline yes yes I have well I am still working on a year-long project called Walking the Pipe.
1:31.5	And I am walking the route this year from Bledford to Birmingham.
1:37.0	And as I walk along, I'm talking to people.
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