Tennant Canal Traditional Cache
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This originaly was going to be a replacement for my Pant Y Sais Fen cache but have now decided to keep that one live as well. A 0.33lt beaker container in a camo bag is what you are looking for. To find this cache you will need to walk along the Tennant Canal tow path. The path can get very muddy due to its proximity to the canal. The actual cache is not on the path but you will need to find an electricity pylon and follow the path to the top of the bank and then walk back to the cache. Don't be tempted to follow the top path back to Jersey Marine as it dosen't go anywhere. As the path follows the canal please keep a close eye on any little members of the group. The Tennant Canal The Tennant Canal was built by George Tennant, initially as an extension of the Glan-y-Wern Canal, with the intention of linking the Tawe and Neath rivers. Work started in 1817, under the direction of the engineer William Kirkhouse, and the canal was complete from near the east pier on the River Tawe at Swansea to the River Neath at Red Jacket by 1818. However, barges from the Neath Canal could not cross the river, and so a further extension was started in 1820, to link with the Neath Canal basin at Aberdulais. The extension crosses the river on a 10-arched aqueduct, and the only lock on this section was situated at the south end of the aqueduct. The length of the canal, completed in 1824, was 8 miles, and it was built without an act of Parliament. It is still owned by the Coombe-Tennant family. At the Swansea end, Tennant built a sea-lock, so that boats could enter Fabian Bay, and named the area Port Tennant. His terminus was destroyed when the Prince of Wales Dock was constructed by the Swansea Harbour Trust in 1881. It occupied all of the area which had been Fabian Bay, and so a lock was constructed so that boats could still reach tidal water by passing through the dock, and a wharf for the canal was constructed at the eastern end of the dock. Tennants wharf was again destroyed in 1898, when the dock was extended. Wharfage was provided for the canal along the entire southern side of the extension, but no lock was built to allow canal boats to enter the dock, even though the act of parliament made provision for one. A new branch of the canal was built in 1909, which included a lock into the newly constructed Kings Dock, where a lay-by berth was provided on its north side.
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