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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #82 Securing the Shugborough Tunnel
Description: Set in the West Midlands county of Staffordshire is a former Royal Forest called Cannock Chase. It is part misty, secluded woodland and part undulating moorland. As you head up to the north of this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the landscape becomes tame and you enter the Shugborough Estate, some 10km to the east of the town of Stafford.
Beneath the garden landscape, dotted by picnickers, joggers and dog-walkers, lies the 700m Shugborough Tunnel. Built in the mid-1800s, the construction works left eight unlined and unfilled shafts. Now, safety concerns and water inflows have led...