by Nigel Heath It was a déjà vu moment vividly recalling the glorious summer afternoon that my walking companion and poet Peter Gibbs and I sat on a seat eating ice cream at Great Haywood Junction whi ...									
								
								
									
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										It was early spring when my walking companion and poet Peter Gibbs and I set out on the picturesque forty-six mile long, Llangollen Canal. This famous waterway, opened in 1805, links Llangollen in Nor ...									
								
								
									
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										The walkers now departing from platform two on the railway station close to the famous Cadbury World chocolate factory were not heading by train into Birmingham but out of a convenient side gate and b ...									
								
								
									
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										The quiet Northamptonshire village of Naesby, with its traditional cluster of old red brick houses has a claim to fame other than being the site of the famous English Civil War battle between Charles  ...									
								
								
									
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