Monday 16 June 2014 –Whittington,
Coventry Canal
A pleasant weekend doing very little, the village itself is small with
modern housing built around. Shakespeare
was supposedly educated in the Village School, but the ‘Polesworth Circle’ met
at the Hall and included Inigo Jones, Ben Jonson, Jon Donne and Raphael
Hollynshed. There are interesting
information boards around the place and quite a few historic buildings which
are kept in good condition. I normally try not to travel at the weekend –
it gives me an opportunity to locate the nearest Church and check Service times
and this time it was Polesworth Abbey Church.
There has been a church on this site since the 8th
century. From where I sat the walls
seemed to lean outwards which I guess was an optical illusion. Lots of other boaters moored up and there was
a regular change of moorers over the weekend.
Monday I started out at 08:00 and had no problems with the two Galscote
locks. I have continued on to
Whittington where I have moored for the day.
Now pay attention I shall write zis only once: - back in the canal
building days Fazely was to be a junction where the Birmingham & Fazely
Canal joined the Coventry Canal on its way to meet the Trent & Mersey. Unfortunately the Coventry company ran out of
money so the B&F continued to Whittington and joined up with a linking arm
built by the T&M which was later bought by the Coventry Canal when they’d
found a few more pennies!! The result is
that from Fazely Junction the next sixteen bridges have names rather than
numbers (as do all on the B&F) and then the Coventry numbers them as if the
B&F bit didn’t exist – 77 just before Fradley Junction and 78 in
Whittington some 5 miles further on. Isn’t
life fun.
Graham & Beryl on Priscilla ii are planning to complete the South
Pennine Ring next month and I have asked if I can tag along, which has been
accepted so this afternoon I have looked at the itinery and marked it up
ready. It does mean that there will be
no weekends off but better to go in company.
The weather all weekend was warm and sunny but today is warm and
cloudy. White fluffy clouds with lots of
blue patches.
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