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Stroudwater's missing mile

Open Country by BBC

Mar 19, 202624:10Science & Medicine

The Stroudwater canal in Gloucestershire was built in the 1770s. It brought coal to the mills along the Stroud valleys, which had become an important centre for the manufacture of woollen cloth, but the arrival of the ra...

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Stroudwater's missing mile is an episode from Open Country by BBC. The Stroudwater canal in Gloucestershire was built in the 1770s. It brought coal to the mills along the Stroud valleys, which had become an important centre for the manufact...

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Published Mar 19, 2026, 24:10 long, audio available.