{"id":1147,"date":"2014-03-18T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2014-05-05T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T19:02:21","slug":"easter-eve-ramble-saturday-19-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/easter-eve-ramble-saturday-19-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Eve Ramble \u2013 Saturday 19 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Easter Eve ramble this year is to visit the Crofton Pumping Station on the Kennet and Avon canal (part of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust). \u00a0See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.croftonbeamengines.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.croftonbeamengines.<wbr \/>org<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0The pumping station is scheduled to be \u201cin steam\u201d over the Easter weekend and we plan to see the 1812 Boulton and Watt beam engine working.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Crofton-beam-engine_tmb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-1148\" alt=\"Crofton-beam-engine_tmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27146%27%20height%3D%27109%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20146%20109%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27146%27%20height%3D%27109%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Crofton-beam-engine_tmb.jpg\" width=\"146\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Please meet at Swindon bus station in good time to catch the 10.20 (Stagecoach service 70) arrives Marlborough 11.00, and then the 11.35 bus from Marlborough to Great Bedwyn (Wiltshire buses) arriving at 11.53.\u00a0 (Costs to be confirmed, pay on the bus.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>12.00 noon &#8211; walk from Great Bedwyn to Crofton (2 \u00bd miles along the canal towpath).<\/div>\n<div>13.00 Arrive Crofton.\u00a0 Site visit is free, but to see the engines, a discount rate of \u00a36.50 applies for parties of 10 or more (A provisional booking has been made for 13.30).<\/div>\n<div>15.38 or 16.43- Leave Crofton\u00a0and return by foot along the canal towpath and buses\u00a0 from Great Bedwyn\u00a0 to Marlborough and thence to Swindon .<\/div>\n<div>17.00 or 18.00.\u00a0 Arrive Swindon bus station depending which bus we catch.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please bring a packed lunch (or plan to eat in the cafe at Crofton). \u00a0The total distance 5 miles along the canal towpath \u2013 flat but could be muddy if wet weather. \u00a0Option to drive, meet at Crofton (SN8 3DW\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0map ref SU 261622) at 13.00 hours.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All are welcome, more details from Daniel Pitt,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fdpitt@yahoo.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fdpitt@yahoo.co.uk<\/a>, or mobile\u00a0<a href=\"tel:07834%20704350\" target=\"_blank\">07834 704350<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Easter Eve ramble this year is to visit the Crofton Pumping Station on the Kennet and Avon canal (part of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust). \u00a0See\u00a0http:\/\/www.croftonbeamengines.org\u00a0 \u00a0The pumping station is scheduled to be \u201cin steam\u201d over the Easter weekend and we plan to see the 1812 Boulton and Watt beam engine working. \u00a0 Please meet at Swindon bus station in good time to catch the 10.20 (Stagecoach service 70) arrives Marlborough 11.00, and then the 11.35 bus from Marlborough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}