Two sections of the Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) waterway network can now be ‘Googled’ as the first step in the partnership between the map-maker and CRT.
The Kennet & Avon Canal between Devizes and Semington, including the 29-lock Caen Hill flight,
and the Llangollen Canal between Horseshoe Falls, Llangollen and Chirk Bank, including through the World Heritage Site around Pontcysyllte Aqueduct are on Google’s Street View.
Towpaths along the two waterways at each site were traversed earlier this summer by Google’s Street View Trike and the images have gone live from the panoramic photographs taken. Google aims to include more locations on Street View in the near future.
Robin Evans, chief executive of CRT said – “200 years ago, the canal network helped put the great into Great Britain as an industrial nation. Today the waterways are a haven for both people and wildlife. Having these canals on Street View helps open them up to millions of people right around the globe who might not otherwise be able to come and experience them.”
The two sections are among the most spectacular lengths of CRT’s waterways but both have very good recently renovated level towpaths. It will be interesting to see how Google’s Trike copes with the many miles of rough, narrow and often overgrown canal towpaths. Perhaps it might have to take to the water?
The canal at Llangollen can now be viewed world-wide on Google.
Courtesy of Harry Arnold
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