{"id":6252,"date":"2025-06-16T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:51:13","slug":"les-bisses-du-valais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"Les Bisses du Valais"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My penultimate contribution to On Landscape has just been published in Issue 329.    It concerns the man made channels used for irrigation water in the Valais Canton of Switzerland which in French are known as Bisses.   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