Knocking Off Clanage Road, a Tidbit on the Stork Hotel, and Pre-Flyover Hotwells


                                Urban Decay

                                                                    View into the car park of the former stables/kennels. I just poked my camera through a big hole in the gate.

I went out simply wanting to knock off the very last little unwalked section of Clanage Road, over by Bower Ashton, which has been annoying me for a while as it's quite close by and I've walked the other bits of it several times. So, my plan was to nip over to Greville Smyth Park via a slightly unusual route to wander Clanage Road and tick it off.

Along the way, though, I inevitably got a bit distracted. I took a few photos of Stork House, a grand Hotwell Road building that's recently been done up a bit (I imagine it's student lets, though I'm not sure) and which I found a reference to in a book about the Port Railway and Pier the other week, and also tried to match up a historical photo of Hotwells before the Cumberland Basin Flyover System laid it waste, which included some interesting markers I'll have to do a bit more digging into...

Sat 6 November 2021, 13:35 to 14:59
Sector:  S
Images: 28
Distance: 4.32km
Duration: 1h 24m 0s
Total Elevation Gain: 219m