Report - Pellipar Burn Big Tunnel

[cjdonnelly]

I said i would return to the big tunnel for better photos since my first ones were shit .
so we start of at the big New Bridge and walk downstream to the culvert where the river passes under the gate and into the 6 foot tunnel
but the middles always open for debris to pass through and of coursre for me and other billy big balls to enter the tunnel.

the entrance

close up of tunnel a bit awkward to enter becaude of the water so i threw a plank of wood to walk along since the water was low in winter or wet condititons it would not be as possable withour wellies.
note the size when comparing it to the wine bottle on the bottom right.

looking back towards the light

I came to this manhole chamber water comming in.

manhole itself.

On to the next section.

Some sort of love letter.

I Came out of the round tunnel section into the sump hole chamber which turns to a box culvert which is actully a bridge before the upstream side was culverted i can still remember this being open to the air in times long gone by but this it now under subterranean Dungiven.

The outlet but a bad picture of it. becaue its all sheltered in trees and my tempory phone is crap

the sump hole itself see the ater getting very deep.

the sump hole and the water ripples

On top of the former bridge looking from the road down to the outlet in summer cannot see the river

and here it is around christmas time where you can actually see the river

THANKS FOR LOOKING.

 

[cjdonnelly]

The River now enters a small open section before going under is i refear to my great grannies bridge which is culverted on the upstream side of the old bridge in a 1970s brick culvert
note some of these pictures are from last year and early this year.

water exits the box culvert or as i refair to it as the sandstone bridge.

the tunnel
and here is where the river runs under the old culvert

the river in normal flow

and it in fast flow conditions

And im now under the old bridge
you can see the old brick culvert

and out from under my great grannies bridge which is possably built in medieval times or shortly after

Here is the end of the full culvert from the entrance at the Victorian Newbridge to the Medieval Pellipar Bridge or as i refeir to as my great grannies bridge
since she just lives adjacent to the ancient bridge.
and now i just decided to put photos up for its last course until the big river

here is a few photos

an old bridge one again only this one is overgrown in posion laurel.

an even nicer suprise was th victorian bick arch on the old bridge i think it was a foot bridge.

an old wooden weir

The Pellipar meets the Roe
Thanks for looking.

 

[cjdonnelly]

here is a few google maps photos

here is where the burn is now covered up in a culvert that runs under ths yard

and here is it open back in 2008 but ive seen it long before that.

and here is the other side which is now the outlet and you can see the square tunnel that leads under my great grannies ancient bridge

 

[cjdonnelly]

 

[cjdonnelly]

 

[The Troll]

sorry that most of the writing is butchered here I had to rush it I will explore this river soon but in full detail and top quality pictures I just happened to be working there and when my shift was over down to the river I went and no it will not be like the way it was before