Pero’s Bridge at the Floating Harbour in Bristol – once a
bustling port, now transformed with museums and cafe
The canal at Irish Hill, near Kintbury
We continue through Wiltshire
passing Great Bedwyn, where the rather
large Church of St Mary the Virgin
houses an impressive monument to Sir
John Seymour, father of Jane Seymour
who married King Henry VIII in 1536,
becoming his third wife. Further west
is the world-famous Crofton Pumping
Station, built to replenish the water lost
each time a boat went through a lock.
Although electric pumps are now used,
Crofton’s magnificent steam-driven
beam engines – one of which is the
oldest working beam engine in the world
– are still used on sev