Nick Haslam and Jerome Gopier entering a lock on the Mayenne river close to Chateau Gontier France

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Canoeists Nick Haslam and Jerome Gopier on the Mayenne entering lock on the Mayenne river near Chateau Gontier Mayenne Dept France The Mayenne river has about 13 mills which used to grind corn and which now provide electrical energy through turbines bult in the 1950s. The river was canalised in the 1860s and is now used as a pleasure canal - there is no commercial trafficThere are many chateaux on the river becasue this was formerly a rich area of large farms run by the aristocracy - many of whom lost their heads in the revolution of river has a series of locks which are still manned in the summer which canoeists and kayakists can pass through

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