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Open Country: Witham Navigable Drains

Witham Navigable Drains

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Witham Navigable Drains

Ian Marchant fulfils a boyhood dream, of navigating the Witham Navigable Drains.

Some people dream of exploring Venice by gondola, but Ian Marchant has always dreamed of the world's least romantic waterway: Witham Navigable Drains, in Lincolnshire.

Some people dream of canoeing up the Zambezi, or exploring Venice by gondola, but Ian Marchant has always dreamed of the world's least romantic waterway: the Witham Navigable Drains, near Boston in Lincolnshire. And there is romance and beauty here.  And grand sluices, mighty pumps and a box or two of maggots.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

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