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Download mp3 of A Guided walk with a Park Ranger Track 4'
The text below is a transcript of Track 4 of the walk.
At the viewpoint you get a majestic view and down below us are two more reservoirs the nearest is Teggs Nose Reservoir at 24 1/2 Millon Gallons and the one next to it is Bottoms at 34 million gallons that took some measuring I can tell you.
These were constructed to regulate the flow of water to the village of Langley , that is the village on the right down here as the whole village was founded on silk printing and it still has a silk printing factory today.
It is quite interesting to note at this point how the landscape changes, from the hedges to the right and as the landscape rises to the left the walls get more frequent.
Between the forest and the reservoirs and our two reservoirs this side of the road is a farm and this farm is called High Low farm. Just to the left of this farm is the barrow. This farm has a water trough and Oct 13th 1949 a brow trout died it had lived in this trough for 20 years it was 8 inches when it was put in and 17 1/4 when it died, not much happen in Langley.
Now the Country Park is quite unique and it is spread out down below you, now keep your eyes open for the Red Deer that often spend the summer here. The woodland at the bottom is quite unique as well among our Country park sites, as we have a large area of woodland that we don’t encourage the public to go into. It is an area that we can leave the dead trees to die in there own time.
As in areas where the public are allowed access we have to fell the dead trees and take out the dead timber, and loose the precious homes for birds and insects in the name of safety. Just below you all there is all that stone I was telling you about was dumped over the end of the nose from the quarry.
It might be quite nice just to sit for a while and turn me off and soak up the peace.
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