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The ideal is shown here. The edge neatly trimmed, and looking attractive for both the boater and the towpath walker |
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Now an example of how it should NOT look. Wildly overgrown, it not only looks a mess but is dangerous to moor to |
There should be nothing which impedes a rope placed between the towpath and the water.
- Trees should not be allowed to take root on the verge at the water’s edge.
- This makes it impossible to bowhaul the boat, should it be necessary (butties in particular)
- They hamper the mowing of the edge
- They damage the wash wall by ingress of roots
- They deplete the water in the canal
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The towpath here is quite tidy, but the canalscape would benefit from these messy reeds being dredged out, and that obstructing tree cut down. |
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Signs placed as this one on the Caldon Canal cause similar obstruction |