Thrapston to Fotheringhay, River Nene
Another good day, blue sky and a good days boating to look forward to.
A swift visit to Thrapston for a paper and on our way, and meeting the first moving boat as we get to the lock at Titchmarsh, beside an attractive mill as so many of these locks are - rolling lawns and weeping willows etc
On towards Oundle, and the guide book is so right when it says the Nene grows lovelier by the mile, as it winds its way past villages and so many church spires - all different. Oundle marina is placed in a very lovely spot with another old attractive mill building beside the lock.
We manage to moor for lunch, on an unofficial mooring, just before the next lock, which we note is manual - so indigestion ahead!
Our overnight mooring is planned to be at Fotheringhay, where we recall mooring about 20 years ago at the edge of a farmers field, and ordering a Sunday paper. Amazingly, the arrangement still exists, except we must collect the paper from the farmhouse, as it is no longer delivered to the boat! We are just below the impressive Fotheringhay Church, and several other boats also stop, including one that Bob recognises as an ex Red Line hire boat, talk about an anorak!
We walked around Fotheringhay and it is still a very attractive, quiet Cambridgeshire village, even with a large wedding reception taking place in the neighbouring farm garden. Fotheringhay Castle is where Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded, and somewhere in the field we walked through, her heart is believed to be buried!
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