ST6848 : Coleford: ‘Hucky Duck’

near to Coleford, Somerset, Great Britain

Coleford: ‘Hucky Duck’
Coleford: ‘Hucky Duck’
An aqueduct built as part of the Dorset & Somerset Canal, which was begun in 1797 but never completed. ‘Aqueduct’ was a rather new-fangled word for the Somerset colliers and got corrupted to ‘Hucky Duck’. Only a generation ago I recall a retired miner in the Seven Stars in Timsbury avowing ‘Not in a twelvemonth ..’; he would never stoop to using the word ‘year’. A part of the world where change comes slowly
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ST6848, 7 images   (more nearby - lo-fi)
Photographer
Martin Bodman   (find more nearby)
Image classification
Geograph
Date Taken
Friday, 8 August, 2008   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 9 August, 2008
Category
Aqueduct   (more nearby)
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! ST 685 487 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:14.2233N 2:27.1552W
Photographer Location
OSGB36: geotagged! ST 685 488
View Direction
SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
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