Showing posts with label River Creuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label River Creuse. Show all posts

Friday, 26 October 2012

Mill Weir at La Roche Posay

Today's blog follows on from our reflections blog yesterday, where we mentioned the weir giving the perspective of a split screen.

Looking from the old railway bridge it was difficult to see the actual layout of the River Creuse but what was obvious was the length of the barrage across the river.

Looking at it on Bing Maps gives you a better idea of the scale. A quick estimate is that it is around 400 metres, that must make it one of the longest in the area... unless of course anyone knows of another long one...

The "Mill" which the barrage serves is another question...

Having done several searches we cannot find anything on the internet about it... other than this old postcard.

This refers it it as "Station Thermal de la Roche Posay"

You have to ask "Is this where the spa water comes from?"

If you do have any info on the building we would like to know.

Footnote...
Jim and Pauline will be pleased to know that when we did the first search on Google their Gite was the first and third entries that came up out of over 17 million hits... You must be doing something right Jim...