Rowington

Here I am Rune

Distance 4 miles

Total 2336 Locks  103 Tunnels

Running total mileage 3353.8 miles 

Again, just a short trip to enable us to moor up before the England v Italy rugby match this afternoon.  We are moored at pretty much the same place that we moored when we walked across to look at the Gormley statue at Lowsonford lock, might have a wander across later to see if it is still there.

Probably one of the most impressive parts of today’s trip was an enormous embankment that carried the canal above the Old Warwick Road near St Lawrence Church, Rowington. Bearing in mind that these embankments were built by men with picks, shovels, wheelbarrows and horse & carts it is an impressive piece of work. When it was built the locals wouldn’t have ever seen anything like it before. The problem with canal building, when compared to railway building, is that the canal cannot be put into water until the pound is finished whereas when building a railway you can instal a line and use it to carry material to build the embankment.