This year's OHIHS walk will be a circular walk in the Taff valley to look at features associated with the Glamorganshire Canal between Quakers Yard and Abercynon. We shall walk the lines of the two feeders (that supplied water from the river to two different places on the canal and include an aqueduct), the Abercynon flight of eleven locks (including the junction with the Aberdare Canal) and the Merthyr Tramroad (including the two tramroad bridges crossing the river) and shall view the site of the canal interchange basin at Navigation. If we have time we shall also walk further up the tramroad from Quakers Yard to view Brunel's Taff Vale Railway viaduct across the river (widened in the 1860s).

Meeting time and place is 10am on the road bridge that crosses the river Taff in Quakers Yard. Our hostelry of return will be the Glantaff Inn, Quakers Yard (CF46 5AH).

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[Ref. Rowson and Wright The Glamorganshire and Aberdare Canals Vol 1 (2001), chapters 7 and 8; Rowson Engineering on the Taff Vale Railway 1861-8 in Archive, The Quarterly Journal for British Industrial and Transport History Issue 21 (1999).]