{"id":3952,"date":"2020-09-17T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndac.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2021-06-25T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T19:43:12","slug":"video-report-on-tidenham-tunnel-part-of-the-wye-valley-greenway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/09\/video-report-on-tidenham-tunnel-part-of-the-wye-valley-greenway\/","title":{"rendered":"Video report on Tidenham Tunnel, part of the Wye Valley Greenway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><Div style=\"background-color:#efffde; padding:20px; width:610px; margin:24px 0;\"><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndac.co.uk\/wye-valley-greenway.htm\">The Wye Valley Greenway is now open for walkers and cyclists. <\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The Wye Valley Greenway provides a sustainable way to explore the beautiful Lower Wye Valley, an area of outstanding natural beauty. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndac.co.uk\/wye-valley-greenway.htm\">Learn more about the Wye Valley Greenway here \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/Div><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u7lB-79LG6E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A fascinating video report by <a href=\"https:\/\/forgottenrelics.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forgotten Relics<\/a> about the fabulous Tidenham Tunnel, constructed in the 1870s as part of a railway connecting Chepstow and Monmouth, but destined to become the second longest tunnel on the country\u2019s cycle network when it reopens as part of the Wye Valley Greenway. <\/p>\n<p>Work to reopen the 1,188-yard long Tidenham Tunnel has made considerable progress in 2020, with tarmac laid by a contractor at the start of September followed by a subsequent volunteer workcamp which saw lighting installed and recesses bricked-up to encourage bat use.<\/p>\n<p>Dating from 1876, the structure is unusual in that it started out as two tunnels; the small, intervening gap was later arched over and backfilled.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hoped to open the greenway &#8211; which will connect Chepstow to Tintern &#8211; in the spring of 2021.<\/p>\n<p><small>Words and video by <a href=\"https:\/\/forgottenrelics.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forgotten Relics<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating video report by Forgotten Relics about the fabulous Tidenham Tunnel, constructed in the 1870s as part of a railway connecting Chepstow and Monmouth, but destined to become the second longest tunnel on the country\u2019s cycle network when it reopens as part of the Wye Valley Greenway. <\/p>\n<p>Work to reopen the 1,188-yard long Tidenham Tunnel has made considerable progress in 2020, with tarmac laid by a contractor at the start of September followed by a subsequent volunteer workcamp which saw lighting installed and recesses bricked-up to encourage bat use.<\/p>\n<p>Dating from 1876, the structure is unusual in that it started out as two tunnels; the small, intervening gap was later arched over and backfilled.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hoped to open the greenway &#8211; which will connect Chepstow to Tintern &#8211; in the spring of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1767,2957,1766,2801,2731,2732],"tags":[2988,2993,1674,2992,2986,2888,2733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndac.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}