NIGEL HEATH SPENDS A MOST MORABLE DAY WALKING THE GRAND WESTERN CANAL

The Grand Western Canal runs for eleven glorious miles through rolling mid-Devon countryside with distant views of Exmoor – all the way from Tiverton to a remote and shady Lowdwells Basin in the parish of Holcombe Rogus. It attracts some 300,000 walkers, cyclists of all ages, canoeists, and paddle boarders a year and must be a prime example of how Britain’s industrial heritage has found a new…