{"id":226,"date":"2008-05-07T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php\/2008\/05\/07\/gloucester-to-sharpness-canal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:59:34","slug":"gloucester-to-sharpness-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Gloucester to Sharpness Canal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDry night, all kit washed dry and packed, so strolled down to Gloucester cathedral to just miss the 08:30 service. Unfortunately no stamp available, have an info piece of paper with a logo to make something with. Saw the Denny window &#8211; the verger seemed to think his best work is at Chepstow in a small parish church, must find out more about him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n.<a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/GloustertoSharpnessCanal_132F0\/PICT0018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/GloustertoSharpnessCanal_132F0\/PICT0018_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PICT0018\" width=\"435\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a> Now I notice that the Gloucester &ndash; Sharpness Canal goes to Slimbridge by a much more direct path than the winding River Severn so follow it from Gloucester docks (greasy spoon breakfast at 09:00). Rather damp day but cape working well; once over the pack it can be adjusted to cope with heat or rain in various ways. I&rsquo;m sure I look ridiculous but who cares..\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/GloustertoSharpnessCanal_132F0\/PICT0026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/GloustertoSharpnessCanal_132F0\/PICT0026_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PICT0026\" width=\"464\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/GloustertoSharpnessCanal_132F0\/PICT0027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriter\/GloustertoSharpnessCanal_132F0\/PICT0027_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PICT0027\" width=\"471\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe water way obviously dates to Victorian times and the bridge keepers&#39; cottages have incongruous Greek\/Roman pillars around their front doors. The swing bridges are manually operated providing much needed exercise for the bridge keepers who would otherwise just sit there all day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nArrive Slimbridge, Tudor caravan park at 15:30 &pound;7 per night (yesterday was &pound;11 but the loos were cleaner) but quite busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dry night, all kit washed dry and packed, so strolled down to Gloucester cathedral to just miss the 08:30 service. Unfortunately no stamp available, have an info piece of paper with a logo to make something with. Saw the Denny window &#8211; the verger seemed to think his best work is at Chepstow in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/?p=226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gloucester to Sharpness Canal.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}