Newport, United Kingdom
Cwm Ln, Rogerstone
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+44 1633892167
Not much to see there however it has good views and it is a nice walk if you have a dog. Parking is reasonable. Locks are no longer is use
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Small car park, with pay and display - 1 buys you 4hrs of parking, which was more than enough for us. The locks are not functional by the look of them and are much overgrown, in need of some help to cut back the over growth and fix the lock gates. By the car park there is a nice water basin with ducks and wildlife along with a shop, toilets and a small cafe selling the basics like teas, coffee's, fresh made sandwiches, which we enjoyed. We also did the circular walk, which is OK for a walk but nothing spectacular, especially after you have walked past the locks. A bit overgrown in places especially the bit where you come out on the golf course.
A fellow still furloughed was discussing how he was going to relax today, on the radio, by heading down to Fourteen Locks in Newport. BBC Radio 6 listeners are an eclectic mix so my interest was piqued (particularly if there's a nice ramble, lots of good old fashioned engineering and a cafe with coffee on the agenda) and we decided to ditch the Cotswolds in favour of a tow path walk instead. Skimming the reviews it's easy to ignore the ignorant (comments like \the locks aren't even working\ still bewilder me when you can look them up on Wikipedia in 10 seconds and find that the restoration of locks 17 to 20 cost a mere 700,000 of Heritage Lottery funding) and see how popular and beautiful this walk and locks are. There is a lot of overgrown vegetation but several of the stretches are good enough to attract wildfowl (2 lovely swans and their cygnets, moorhens, etc.) and there's lots of flora to admire (the jumping jack is very pretty but remember that it's a bit of an invasive species as far as the RHS is concerned along watersides in the UK). I'm always in awe of the engineers of the industrial revolution and how fast they could knock out significant structures - this 1.5 mile 14 lock run took a mere 3 years to build (compare this to a local project in my area to replace a singlen railway bridge that is now estimated to take about the same time). A lovely walk finished off with ice cream in the cafe. It'll be even better when they've restored all 14 - if I'm still alive to see it!
Great place to go for a walk with a buggy. You can go in two directions one is a bit hilly and one is flatter and longer distance. Very nice quiet walk.
Great for a relaxing day out. Easy to find with an inexpensive car park. It certainly was a steep climb for the canal boats coming up from Newport but with the coal mines at the top it was worth it. Fortunate that the top picks have been conserved so that part of history is not forgotten.
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