Last night's meal at the 16th century Sutton Hall 10 minutes walk from our moorings at the Gurnet Aqueduct was excellent and well complemented by the range of small brewery beers.
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| Moored on the Dane Valley embankment |
Today we continued our journey homewards. Bad weather was forecast for later in the day so we started early at 8:25 reaching the top of the 12 Bosley locks at 10:00. Despite a quick shower of rain and the need for us to fill most of the locks before entering we reached the bottom without difficulty in 2 hours and stopped soon afterwards on the large embankment which crosses the Dane Valley beneath the landmark hill known as The Cloud.
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| Aqueduct carrying the canal over the River Dane |
As is so often the case the scale of the engineering works is partly hidden by trees blocking off the view. However I was able to walk down to the river Dane and get a photograph of the impressive aqueduct carrying the canal over the river. Furtunately the rain held off until I got back to the boat.
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