Lovely English Countryside

The fence beside this field is lowered there in the ravine so that fox-hunters can jump it, but cows can't.











That's a hand-powered canal lock. The canals were very popular for about 50 years until the railroads replaced them, and for the last 150 or so have been very popular with vacationers, some of who travel all over England for months via canal. The paths along the canal are nice biking/walking paths, too.