Hawser Tensioner
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Hawser Tensioner
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 9 Mar 2018
It says on this device that it is for tensioning wire ropes, and it is indeed doing just that. The thing that puzzled me was that the other end of it is round a post about 25 metres away, still at the head of Long Slough, so I can't think why there is a need to tension a hawser just here. It may be to do with the cycle path, which has a gap in it here, but I am still at a loss to know why.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.117927
Longitude
-2.060917