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川や運河が国土を縦横に走っています。なぜなら、特に産業革命の初期には、交通インフラの非常に重要な要素だったからです。結局のところ、工場はこれまで知られていなかったほどの大量の原材料の供給を必要としており、完成品も商人への道をたどる必要がありました。運河の多くはこの時代に起源を持っています。その後、最初は鉄道が、さらに後にはトラックが商品の輸送を引き継ぎました。 人工水路の建設や河川の航行を可能にする際には、常に標高差を克服する必要があることを考慮する必要がありました。そのため、運河や河川に沿って、その場所の状況に応じて、多かれ少なかれ大きな間隔で、多くの場合、水門が並んでいます。水門の助けなしには、航行は不可能でした。

All cyclists are able to pass the toll bridge for free

This exact spot seems to be a hotel garden.

Mention should be made of the Norman ‘flower-pot’ font. These are fairly common in Berkshire and the design was probably copied from the Jewish stone jars used for ritual washing in the time of Jesus, and referred to in the Gospel of St John at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. Today a similar jar can be seen in the Orthodox Church in Cana.

Laurence Binyon, 1869-1943, whose ashes are buried with those of his wife Cicily by the beech hedge bounding the churchyard, is especially remembered for the words of his poem “For the Fallen”, quoted at Remembrance Day Services: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Those from the village who gave their lives in the two World Wars are remembered in the east window and on the Memorial on the outside wall.

Yes this area is famous for the giants and the yew tree, but let's not over look the beautiful little church. St Mary’ church in Aldworth dates back in part to around 1200. The oldest part of Aldworth Church is the lower half of the tower, which is in the style known as Transitional Norman and may be dated about the year 1200, but the site is probably much older. The original circular shape of the churchyard suggests an earlier pagan burying ground which can still be seen by a ring of holly trees to the east of the church. The church yard was extended to the beech hedge in the 1930s. The Jacobean pulpit was once in St Lawrence’s Church, Reading. For some reason it was no longer wanted there and was sold or given to Aldworth about the year 1740. The reading desk is also a splendid piece of carving, but its history is not known. It hardly looks as if it was originally intended for a church.

Historical landmark. The Yew tree in the churchyard is at least 1000 years old and though it has been struck by lightning and blown over in a storm it is still partly alive.

Rumoured to once have been a medieval hall house or manor before it became a pub. It was built in the 15th century or possibly earlier, It has two rooms, a large panelled tap room with inglenook fireplace and quarry-tiled floor, and a smaller L-shaped room. The bar itself is a servery with sliding glass partitions and hatches, and has no bar fittings at all save for ebony handpumps, which were fitted in 1902. The pub is also notable for having been owned and run by the same family continuously since the 18th century. The pub is a free house and sells beers from a number of local breweries.