With bad weather forecast for the weekend and our early stop yesterday we needed to make significant progress on our journey to Northampton today. After studying the river guide book we decided to make for Wadenhoe some 13 miles and 8 locks away which we estimated would take 7 hours.
Starting at 8:30 the journey proved to be very enjoyable with delightful scenery and good views of Red Kites and a kingfisher (Denise missed it!). We made fast progress despite a strong headwind averaging about 3.5 mph whilst moving and were able to work the locks faster than expected having established an efficient allocation of tasks. We traveled through the final two locks with "Morning Mist" who we last met in Whittlesey last Sunday. We arrived at the Kings Head in Wadenhoe, where we had moored on our way down the Nene at the end of June, at 3pm - 6.5 hours in total.
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| Green Man at Wadenhoe church |
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| The other Green Man |
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| Church Street (formerly Gas Street) Wadenhoe |
After securing the boat we visited the 13th Century Church with its two carvings of the Green Man and walked around the village using a guidebook we had bought at the church to identify houses, mainly thatched cottages, of interest. Also identified was the site of the village gas works which closed in 1911!
We will be eating in the Kings Head tonight.
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