Aldermaston

Map Reference SU 59957 67152

Distance 6.4 Miles

Total 120 Locks 6 Tunnels

Making fairly slow progress along the Kennet and Avon (even by our standards!) but this is partly due to the slowness of the locks as they are broad locks so take twice as long to fill, not assisted by the fact that some of them leak quite badly. Over 2 days now we have got from Burghfield to Aldermaston. Picked a bad day to do Aldermaston since Saturday is the changeover day for the hire fleet based there and there were a few crews of limited experience making their first moves on the canal this afternoon, and at Aldermaston their first ‘practice run’ involves a powered lift bridge over a main road immediately followed by a lock. It made it interesting going through Aldermaston Wharf but one or two didn’t look as though they were enjoying it as much as they should have been