Pulteney Weir
Horseshoe-shaped river weir below a shop-lined Georgian bridge, rebuilt for flood control.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Pulteney Weir in Bath follows a small pleasure launch and its skipper on an October afternoon in two thousand and four, as he brings nine passengers back upriver for the moment every trip was sold on. Along the way it explains why the weir is shaped like a horseshoe, and the flood scheme that rebuilt it around nineteen seventy. Best heard from Pulteney Bridge or the riverside walk, where you can watch the water spill over the curve.
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