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    Going underground!

    May 28, 2018 4 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

    JUST when we thought, with the opening of a major new Isambard Kingdom Brunel museum in Bristol, we knew all of his major works off by heart – another has been discovered.

    Added to Box Tunnel, the Royal Albert Bridge, Maidenhead Bridge, Bristol Temple Meads, Sonning Cutting and the SS Great Britain can be added another – a huge underground reservoir at Starcross in Devon.

    Two 105ft long and 10ft wide caverns with a spectacular display of stalactites formed by dripping water from the roof, and linked by 120 arches, were discovered purely by chance in April

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