Tuesday 2 August 2011

Br86 to Br 47 Macclesfield Canal

We started the day in drizzle that turned to harder rain that eventually stopped when we had to ascend the Boseley Locks.

The canal skirts Congleton without noticing that you are near a big town and continues NE to reach the 12 locks that take you to over 500ft above sea level. Part way up the locks we met a Valley Cruisers Hire Boat from Nuneaton, whom we had encountered some time ago. They are out for four weeks. Unfortunately they annoyed the boat going up ahead of us by pinching a lock from them.

The stonework on this canal is quite amazing and some of the lock walls would not look out of place at Machu Pichu.

Having climbed the only flight of locks on the canal we moored before  Macclesfield and let the dog off as he had been on the boat for a long time. He immediately disappeared into the woodland and eventually came back covered in thick mud!!