Engine Lock

Here I am Rune

Distance 10.8 miles

Total 551 Locks 17 Tunnels

Running total mileage 844.6 miles

A far better effort today, 10.8 miles and 9 locks so that’s 19.8 ‘lock miles’ can’t help but be happy with that for a day’s work! We had to start a bit earlier, like about 10am but we have managed to achieve all targets for the day, Etruria for lunch and Engine Lock for the end of the day.

This is a bit of canal that we have previously travelled on whilst on a hire boat but, other than the statue of James Brindley that you pass as you enter the Caldon Canal, I can’t really say that any of it seems particularly familiar.  The reports are that the canal becomes more attractive the further along it you travel as  you get closer to The Peak District National Park, we’ll be covering both the Leek Branch and the Froghall Branch although it seems unlikely that we’ll reach the terminus as you have to pass through Froghall Tunnel and it seems that we will be too tall to fit through.

Traditional Stoke 'bottle kilns'.

The start of the Caldon Canal (Trent and Mersey canal going away to the right)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Statue of James Brindley (Canal Builder)