Our plan for today had been to just go round the corner to close to where the car is being kept, but Adrian had booked a hair cut in Nantwich, so we decided to go there instead. It was a lovely sunny morning and we set off about 9.15.
There were plenty of boats about, including one just in front of us. When we got to Barbridge Junction, he made the turn north towards Chester.
He’d indicated that a boat was coming south, so I crept towards the junction, with Adrian acting as lookout. The boat had waited, as they wanted to turn into the Middlewich Arm. So we came out of the junction, and then they went round. I was able to tell them the coast was clear.
At Hurleston Junction, the start of the Llangollen Canal, a boat was waiting to go up, and a boat was going into the bottom lock to come down.
We carried on south towards Nantwich. The bridge across the mainline at Nantwich Marina (this used to be a junction) has the mile post for Nantwich being zero miles.
We slowly passed all the moorings and went across the aqueduct, then passed all the moorings to the south, noting where the gaps were. There’s a winding hole through the next bridge, and it turned out the boat in front of us wanted to turn around as well. There was a boat coming the other way, so they waited for them to come past first, then turned.
We were now in a procession of three boats, plus a day boat behind, but the spot we’d identified on the approach to the aqueduct was still free.
After lunch, we walked into Nantwich, which has some very interesting buildings and a large church, nicknamed the Catherdral of South Cheshire, apparently.
We visited the little museum, which has sections of salt making, the Romans, and Cheshire cheese! After drinks in a cafe, Adrian went off to the barber while I walked back the long way round, following part of the Nantwich Riverside Loop, which goes along the River Weaver, then cuts across the fields, crosses the railway lines and returns to the canal towpath.
6 miles, 0 locks. (70 miles, 20 locks)
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