A 4km second attempt, five years after a previous one, to find the second of a pair of aqueduct vents mentioned in a 2019 Guardian article.Route: leaving the car outside the Eagle and Child at 11:30am and crossing the playing field behind the primary school to reach the path past the Mill Yard, across the river, and gently uphill to cross the c-road and enter Craggy Wood (where a number of trees had fallen over since a previous visit and the top right corner of the wood had been very-recently fenced off, with several new gates in and out).
Following the path round to reach the upper balcony path and, again finding no trace of a second vent up or down the path of the aqueduct. Exiting the wood and desending to Barley Bridge (the water crashing over the weir having been audible way up the hillside), then back along the road to join the river and return to the pub.
Conditions: 1C, low cloud and drizzle.
Pub: the Eagle and Child, Staveley, for Tirril Staveley IPA and Cumbrian Ales Pinnacle Pale Ale.
