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I've walked along the banks of the Don. I don't think we'll ever travel up that way again but we had some good walks with the friends we used to stay with.

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Very nice post bret, even for me there something quite spiritual happening when I enter a place of prayer, I have great respect for those magnificent holy structures whether it be gothic church, Mosque or Synagogue.

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I always try to avoid them Spitty....

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There is just something quite stimulating walking alongside water mart. At one time or another I've covered most of the length of the River Don from where it rises at Slaters Brook, Penistone all the way to where it discharges into the Ouse at Goole. I'm glad you enjoyed the walks mart...

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My friend said it used to be very polluted but it has recovered now and has fish in it. Just been reading a bit on the Internet that says the same.

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...-clean-1783321

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That's true mart, when I was a boy we used go down to the river with grappling hooks and pull out massive pieces of driftwood, one old fella made a living out of it, selling the wood to burn on the coal fires, he had it stacked up in his yard. The river stunk, and there must have been a rich cocktail of chemicals in there from the factories at Sheffield, nothing survived!

I can't remember the date but in Doncaster museum there was a massive Sturgeon several feet long that had been caught in the river down near the old International Harvesters factory, but that might have been before the river got so polluted.

So it was a complete surprise back in the 2000's as I was running over the bridge at Bramwith to see fishermen lining the bank... After making enquiries it seems that the river was now so clean that it was able to support several species of fish. Yorkshire Water and the Environment Agency have done a stirling job around here preventing flooding and cleaning up the waterways.

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Good to see that happen.

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When I lived in dear old Donny back in the sixties, the River Don was the second most polluted river in the country after the Thames.

My family were never tempted to walk alongside the Don. It took a long time for both rivers, and many others, for the waters to be clean enough to support wildlife.