Report - Buxton Town Culvert - September 2024

[GRONK]

September 2024​

Visited with @Mr Budge and @MotionlessMike, If you follow the river River Wye you will eventually reach Buxton's Pavilion Gardens, it is in these gardens that the river drops underground and travels beneath the town, their is little to see of the river, still only a small stream at the time is passes through Buxton, as when the 5th Duke of Devonshire built The Crescent between 1780 and 1784 he culverted the river to pass beneath the building, and more recently it has been culverted again to pass beneath the Spring Gardens shopping centre. We did venture into the newer section of the culvert which does pass under the shopping centre however this is your standard concrete box and didn't really showcases anything of interest unlike its upstream counterpart.

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Cheers for looking
Fujifilm X-T2, 10-24mm f4 R OIS WR (Velvia)​

 

[Calamity Jane]

Great photos. So clear too. 👍

 

[jezzyboo]

I remember doing this one was silty and deep in the middle section some nice old stone work at the infall , nice pics there's a smaller section downstream but that is really deep around the outfall

 

[Mr Budge]

Apart from killing my camera was a fun morning mate

 

[MotionlessMike]

Apart from killing my camera was a fun morning mate

What about getting spanked in the face by a drain ball?

 

[GRONK]

Close competition with our three screams when that bat flew past

 

[MotionlessMike]

Close competition with our three screams when that bat flew past

I completely forgot about that 🤣😭

 

[blazer420]

Mad I’ve lived in Buxton all my life pretty much and always wanted to see what it’s like under there as a kid I always imagined rusty rotten cars down there 😂 the odd dead sheep

 

[GRONK]

I always imagined rusty rotten cars down there 😂 the odd dead sheep

Nah, just a few footballs and a load of Bats!

 

[blazer420]

Nah, just a few footballs and a load of bats

Damn one can dream