Remarkably, we had the lovely Clive Green moorings to ourselves last night. This morning, with a very unambitious target, we were in no rush to get away. We eventually got a wash load going to try to reduce the backlog, and set off rather slowly at about 10am; the was no point it getting to where we were going if the washing machine hadn’t finished. The local farmer and his team was busy muck spreading.
The canal seems very quiet at the moment. No boats had been past before we set off, and we passed only one in the hour we were moving. We moored up just through Bridge 14, on the first of the Church Minshull moorings. These ones don’t have a view over the valley, but they do have a nice piled edge rather than rocks below the water line. A while later, when it was lunchtime, we walked down the road from the bridge into Church Minshull. There’s a bridge over the River Weaver, with a view of Bridge House, which has a rather unexpected tower.
The church bell ringers had been doing their thing for the best part of an hour already. It’s quite an unusual shaped building, and we were headed to The Badger Inn next door.
We had an excellent and good value lunch from their sandwich menu, so good in fact that we’re thinking we really won’t need much dinner later. Then we had a walk round the village, which has lots of half timbered buildings.
To get back, we took a footpath which started along the valley then climbed up through woodlands and even involved a couple of bridges across gulleys.
The last comes out by the next canal bridge, so we could then walk along the towpath back to the boat. We’d thought about doing another mile or two, to the moorings before Aqueduct Marina, but decided to stay where we were. Adrian has spent the afternoon working on a project while he has a good signal; I went for a walk to complete my steps for the day, but otherwise have done very little.
3 miles, 0 locks. (60 miles, 18 locks)
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