taken 7 years ago, near to Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England
Footpath to Rectory Farm
This path from Dernford Mill to Rectory Farm probably sees little use. Several fallen boughs slowed progress and the hawthorn blocking the path ahead proved hard to penetrate.
Parallel stream, braided channel, great garden and downstream of the Broad Crested Weir, which looks in well maintained state for critical low flow assessments and high flood by the Rivers Division of the Authority 1947 1963 Acts, there is some accumulation of sediment and much vegetal growth, delfecting the flow. Fabulous photograph and brilliant weir, it works and it has not fallen in. Upstream there is a paper mill and west there is a farm linked to the other stream, presumably this may have some past connection to this complex. The great thing about these is making them fit in the existing landscape and urban edge, with hydraulic state that emulates the preceding one yet does its job in all regimes, not causing erosion and not backing water into somebody else's land. It even allows ducks to float off the edge rather than sucking them or rivers operatives down the chute of a contracted section.