Hyde falls, discovered by Dan Helsing and nckt.
Orginially visited by myself and Dan Helsing last night at stupid AM after wadering up a small brook over and under a lot of stuff. In total we discovered 3 culverts. The other two of which either one of us will report on in due course. It was a busy night!
We discovered the infall to this drain, and originally thought it to be a bridge, until we heard a rather familiar sound soming from inside, and saw that there was no light coming in from the other end. In we went, a huge brick chamber which led in about 40M or so, and then split off into two sepperate tunnels, one large one and one small one. Firstly inspecting the smaller of the two, passing an amazingly high manhold access ladder, we had to stoop a little as the pipe seemed to shrink a little. Eventually this pipe bends to the left and abrubtly ends where the water flows into a large chamber. Knowing that there was no way down into the chamber and it being a little difficut to light and see into from this angle, we opted to back track and check out the bigger tunnel, as this seemed to be leading onto the chamber too. We followed the bigger tunnel in about 50 or so meters, and again were standing on top of a large water fall, again into the same chamber. There being no way down, we left it for the night (as it was getting close to 3AM) and decided to come back for the outfall on another evening.
Fast forward to tonight; We met up with Jim Gillette who was very interested in our new find, and decided eventually that we would try and find the outfall for the main chamber. After some research the previous evening by both myself and Dan Helsing we had a rough location of an outfall, so decided to head over there. The plan was somewhat scuppered at this point, as the outfall seemed to be lost under a building site where some new houses are being constructed. We followed the road down to the River Tame, where we knew Wilson Brook fed in, and decided to walk up to find the infall that way. We dropped in, and found ourselves at another interesting culvert that none of us has ever seen before. We followed this culvert through the the infall, and then found outselves back in the open. Another couple of mintues later we found ourselves at a large concrete box section that led underground, and due to our research we knew that this had to be our outfall.
Following it inwards a couple of meters we found a large waterfall set into the concrete on the left hand side, which seemed to be coming from a plughole above. This was a sight in itself, spending a few minutes admiring this, and taking some photos, we decided to crack on and follow the flow upwards towards what we now knew had to be the chamber we had seen the night before from above. We were not dissapointed. After crawling over rocks, and nearly suffering some wader breach in the deeper sections of the flow the smaller stone pipe which the concrete box section had turned into opened up into an impressively large chamber featuring a plug hole directly above us, and two waterfalls at the far end which we instantly recognised.
The chamber was amazing to see, and this is one of, if not the best drain I have done, or seen so far. The only thing lacking in there was that there was no brickwork to be seen, only light stone and sandstone, which is what the chamber was hollowed out from.
Next, a little bit of information. The Wilson Brook flows down through Hyde and eventually reaches the River tame in the more northern area of the town. This culvert is 114 meters from the infall to the falls, and around another 120-150 meters from the falls, through the chamber until its eventual outfall.
Enjoy...
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