Capel's Mill viaduct from Fromebanks nature trail

Isambard Kingdom Brunel built a wooden railway viaduct here in the 1840s so the track he'd designed from Swindon to Gloucester could cross the valley to enter Stroud station about four hundred yards further west in the direction I'm looking. It was later replaced by this brick arched viaduct, which encompassed part of the old Capel's Mill site. 

The Thames and Severn canal passes under the third arch which you can see. Just behind my camera position the River Frome is straddled by another arch. The river still flows over the remains of the mill race, which preceded the canal and the railway before dropping down over some small rapids and then flattening out as it approaches the town centre. Fromebanks has been taken over by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust as a nature reserve, where they've created a delightful footpath winding along the river's edge. I went there looking for the kingfishers which nest at Fromebanks but I didn't see them today.