Adventures in Landy Land

Today was another Landrover extravaganza. Twice a year the largest private landrover collection in the world is opened up for the weekend and it happened to be this weekend.

After the morning at the expo we moved onto Shalford Mill which is a fine example of an early eighteenth century water mill that was used to mill corn

The national trust guide was quite elderly and spoke very slowly. After an hour we excused ourselves as we were starving

Then we went onto to see the river Wey. It was one of the first British rivers to be made navigable, and opened to barge traffic in 1653. This 15½-mile waterway linked Guildford to Weybridge on the Thames, and then to London. The Godalming Navigation, opened in 1764, enabled barges to work a further four miles upriver. We spent some time in the visitor centre at Dapdune Wharf in Guildford and took a trip on an electric barge and the guide told us the story of the Navigations and the people who lived and worked on them.

Model of how locks work.

When we got back to our accommodation we took some photos of the place.