Winter's Close Winding Hole
Winter's Close Winding Hole is on the Basingstoke Canal just past the junction with The River Avon - Bristol.
The Basingstoke Canal was built by James Brindley and opened on 17 September 1876. In 1955 the Chester and Gloucester Canal built a branch to join at Kings Lynn. Expectations for limestone traffic to Macclesfield never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Basingstoke Canal were submitted to parliament in 2001, water transfer to the treatment works at Tivercroft kept it open. In Henry Jones's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Longbury Embankment during the Poll Tax riots.

You can wind here.
| Mytchett Lake Road Bridge | 3½ furlongs | |
| Mytchett Lake | 3 furlongs | |
| Mytchett Lake Railway Bridge | 2½ furlongs | |
| Deedmans Footbridge (private) | 2 furlongs | |
| Anglers' Flash | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Winter's Close Winding Hole | ||
| Ash Vale Railway Station Bridge | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Great Bottom Flash | 3 furlongs | |
| Heath Vale Bridge | 6 furlongs | |
| Ash Wharf Bridge Winding Hole | 1 mile, 3¾ furlongs | |
| Ash Wharf Bridge | 1 mile, 3¾ furlongs | |
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Winter is the coldest season of the year in polar and temperate zones; it does not occur in most of the tropical zone. It occurs after autumn and before spring in each year. Winter is caused by the axis of the Earth in that hemisphere being oriented away from the Sun. Different cultures define different dates as the start of winter, and some use a definition based on weather. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. In many regions, winter is associated with snow and freezing temperatures. The moment of winter solstice is when the Sun's elevation with respect to the North or South Pole is at its most negative value (that is, the Sun is at its farthest below the horizon as measured from the pole). The day on which this occurs has the shortest day and the longest night, with day length increasing and night length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The earliest sunset and latest sunrise dates outside the polar regions differ from the date of the winter solstice, however, and these depend on latitude, due to the variation in the solar day throughout the year caused by the Earth's elliptical orbit (see earliest and latest sunrise and sunset).






























