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TRUNDLING THROUGH TYSOE
Peter Jones explores the delightful Warwickshire countryside in search of Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch and Oliver Reed
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My mother who is an avid reader of the Four Shires complained that I never venture in to Warwickshire with my walks. This month I put that right and go off in search of a Red Horse, and find a long forgotten railway, an airfield having a birthday, a distant windmill and Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch and Oliver Reed!
The good news is that it is a fabulous sunny day; great for taking pictures, but the bad news is it is the coldest day of the winter so far.
I was planning to start above the village of Tysoe but as I drove along Camp Lane that leaves the B4100 just after the National Herb Centre I stopped just before the water tower to have a nose around a cutting that has intrigued me for all the years I have lived here.
To the south of the road are several “private” signs nailed to the trees but there appeared to be no such restriction on the north side. The clamber down the bank, mostly on my bottom, was quite steep, but once down there the cutting headed due north. Initially, a reasonable slope but then dropping away quite steeply, the sides lined with moss covered local stone.
the church at Tysoe free power with solar panels
This was the bed of the fantastically named Edgehill and Burton Dassett Light Railway, that operated from the quarries near Ratley and took ironstone to the main railway line at Burton Dassett. The ordnance survey map clearly shows the old route and you can track it (sorry) all the way to the fence of the army camp, this section has a one in six slope and was operated by a cable and pulley system.
42 FOUR SHIRES v MARCH 2012
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