Canal Approximately 500 Metres Long, With The Drum Falls And Weir Inlet

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9/72 Canal approximately 500 metres long, with the Drum Falls and weir inlet

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Canal between the Rustic Bridge (qv) and the Cascade (qv), with weir inlet at south end. Begun c1718 for John Aislabie. Gritstone and clay. Approximately 500 metres long and 10 metres wide, with a change in direction at the weir known as Drum Falls. Canal: stone lining and clay puddled base, the lining collapsed along most of its length. A shallow segmental arch on east side approximately 10 metres from the Rustic Bridge (qv) covers sluice outlet. Drum Falls: flanking walls and sluice rebuilt 1984 after the collapse of the wooden core to the dam. Although the excavation of the canal began in 1718 the canal bank was still being built in 1727-28 with surface stone from Galphay Moor. The south (inlet) end is framed by the Rustic Bridge (qv), originally the limit of the formal water garden, and at the north (outlet) end is the cascade of the weir (qv) into the lake. The canal was the axis of a long view from north of the lake, over Tent Hill and the Temple of Venus, to How Hill Tower, Markington (qv) - a distance of 1½ miles. The Drum Falls takes its name from the rhythm heard in the water emerging from the curved tunnel at the Rustic Bridge (qv) and dropping over the weir into the lower stretch. The rhythm varies with the water volume and can be seen as well as heard. W T C Walker, Studley Royal and Fountains Abbev Estate, 1976.

Listing NGR: SE2799068929