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If you had ventured further into the Netherton Tunnel you would have seen the air-shaft that throws an eerie light onto the water. Cycling through the tunnel is a bit of a "Midlands thing" that has to be done at least once.

Rob Gullen | 13.05.22 - 7:37 a.m. | #

Oh dear. I would love to read this but today the text is too small to read on my phone. Have you changed something?

Freddie | 13.05.22 - 7:42 a.m. | #

Freddie: Gosh, yes, so it is :(

D9000 | 13.05.22 - 7:57 a.m. | #

Ooh, County Tops! Have a book somewhere here. Remember a very easy bagging of Cambridgeshire and Essex a few years back. From London by public transport one can concoct a route from Royston to Newport calling in at the Axe & Compasses in Arkesden near the end.

Lorenzo | 13.05.22 - 8:30 a.m. | #

Really interesting, though I'm not sure I'd fancy walking through the Netherton tunnel, even if I had the time! A quick peek would be enough

Mikey C | 13.05.22 - 8:38 a.m. | #

The text is very small today

Rachel | 13.05.22 - 8:58 a.m. | #

Lovely to get some surprise canal content. I've boated through Netherton Tunnel and it wasn't exciting.

I am perturbed however by the concept of the West Midlands as a county. I don't dispute that it's a 'ceremonial' county but as a metropolitan county that's an entirely administrative entity. All your other county tops have been in actual historic counties How can the West Midlands be a county in its own right when its composed of (parts of) Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire etc. which are clearly the real counties here!

Sarah | Homepage | 13.05.22 - 9:05 a.m. | #

I enjoyed the link to all the county-tops - thanks.
Text is normal on my iPhone and iPad.

Herbof | 13.05.22 - 9:08 a.m. | #

I wonder how many times they've had to repair the signs at Bumble Hole Nature Reserve.

daveid76 | 13.05.22 - 9:09 a.m. | #

For info: the text is 50% smaller than yesterday's post on my phone, but the same size on my desktop. Connected to the unusual font in the 'Geology' paragraph, maybe.

Frank F | 13.05.22 - 9:10 a.m. | #

(I've checked today's post on my phone, in four desktop browsers and in six different mobile simulators, and I'm not seeing anything amiss)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.05.22 - 9:21 a.m. | #

It might be that first paragraph in a different font is doing something weird, it looks fine on my laptop, but checking on my mobile also shows todays post in teeny tiny text.

Still Anon | 13.05.22 - 10:04 a.m. | #

A lovely walk on the adjacent ridge is Barnt Green to Hagley on the North Worcestershire Path, through the Lickey & Clent Hills country parks. It's about 11.5 miles in total. The hills collectively have views in almost all directions, and the highest is about 315m.

Ed S | 13.05.22 - 10:12 a.m. | #

I concur about the font size. I have emailed you a screenshot. No idea of the cause, sorry

Ian | 13.05.22 - 10:16 a.m. | #

For those commenting on font size, surely you can just…

dg interrupts: Never risk a surely.

Jeremy | 13.05.22 - 10:25 a.m. | #

Nice romp to the top of a good sized hill.
I'm with Sarah - about preferring the historic counties, but maybe this is the only hill of note that straddles them all.

Cornish Cockney | 13.05.22 - 10:29 a.m. | #

Likewise with the tiny text. However in landscape mode it reverts to normal, same size as previous posts. Android 12.

Strabismus | 13.05.22 - 10:38 a.m. | #

Tiny text here too on an old Samsung Android phone. Fine on laptop except font of first para. Maybe needs more rusks.

Andrew S | 13.05.22 - 10:50 a.m. | #

Most of the Lord Lieutenants of England and Wales are based on the 1974 county boundaries, so West Midlands would count as a ceremonial county for this purpose. (An anomaly in Yorkshire is that East Riding has a Lord Lieutenant as well as North, South and West Yorkshire).

Man of Kent | 13.05.22 - 12:15 p.m. | #

I can't pinpoint why the text goes small in some circumstances, but the HTML being used contains a lot of deprecated and obsolete elements which are probably rendered in different ways by different browsers. The 'nu' validator finds over 570 such instances in the page before giving up with 'too many errors'.

Peter | 13.05.22 - 2:29 p.m. | #

There's a half marathon in the area that goes through Netherton tunnel. They do some very careful spacing out of the groups!

RachelC | 13.05.22 - 3:16 p.m. | #

The tiny text problem should now be solved... it seems Android browsers recently took against tickboxes, so I removed them from the list at the end of the post :)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.05.22 - 4:02 p.m. | #

Yep, its OK now.

Still Anon | 13.05.22 - 5:27 p.m. | #

The West Midlands also boasts the highest lowpoint of any English county, which is 61m above sea level in a meadow outside Coventry.

This means when global warming really bites the West Midlands should be the last English county to start to flood.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.05.22 - 8:35 p.m. | #

Not somewhere I've been before but looked really interesting and a good route. Thanks for sharing with us.

Jon Combe | 13.05.22 - 9:10 p.m. | #

That's an amazing picture inside Netherton Tunnel; well done.
Thanks for an interesting read, as always. Plenty more places to go and visit, nearer to me than to you in this post.

John M. | 14.05.22 - 8:34 a.m. | #











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