We had 4 enjoyable but hard days work at the festival setting up, working in the IWA shop and closing down. Now there is a more restful long return home.
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| Oddingley churn and farm |
We left our moorings at 8:45, descended Bilsford Top Lock to the winding hole where we turned the boat round, ascended the lock and continued out of Worcester. 8 locks further on we passed through Tibberton where we had moored on Wednesday and then the hamlet of Oddingly with an interesting looking church next to an old half timbered farmhouse.
Our guidebook recounts this story from a memorial in the church:
In 1806 the local rector demanded that the parishioners pay aditional tithes in the form of produce and built a tithe barn to collect them. The parishioners violently objected and the rector was found shot dead in his fields.
We have now moored up for the night in the village of Dunhampstead.
During the journey there was a frequent high pitched chirping, ticking noise coming from the engine. This is of some concern as we will be travelling up the River Severn in a few days and need to have full confidence in the engine. Unfortunately there are no boatyards before the river. I have therefore run RCR, the "AA" of the boatways to see if we can get an ingineer to check it - no news so far.
5 hours, 5.07 miles, 10 locks
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