{"id":440,"date":"2010-05-18T19:20:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2010-05-18T19:20:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:20:55","slug":"lyme-green-to-four-lane-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Lyme Green to Four Lane Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday 18th May<\/span><\/p>\n

You know that farm we were moored up near last night? Well, it turned out to be a dog boarding kennels! We should have realised when\u00a0we kept hearing dogs\u00a0barking in what we thought was the barn of this farm. They\u00a0kept on barking intermittently all evening and again early this morning! We only twigged when we saw two girls walking\u00a0all these dogs\u00a0in the field this morning! <\/span><\/p>\n

To compound the felony, when we turned the corner on our continued journey towards Macclesfield this morning, we discovered miles of more secluded moorings! We comforted ourselves with the thought that they were probably too shallow to get in. Hmm – \u00a0probably not though. We rushed into tonight’s moorings on the advice of a woman already moored here who told us it was really shallow further on, I expect the same thing will happen tomorrow as well!<\/span><\/p>\n

That aside, <\/span>\u00a0it has been a beautiful day and we have come another 7 miles.\u00a0The canal passes\u00a0through only a small\u00a0edge of Macclesfield with its huge Hovis Mill (nice, took\u00a0photo) and Adelphi\u00a0 Mill (not so nice, didn’t take photo), high embankment and\u00a0another ‘snake’ bridge (got photos of them at Congleton\u00a0already). We had some difficulty mooring up in Macclesfield, as usual it was too shallow. We thought we had cracked it to begin with but discovered we were in the waterpoint mooring and had to move in case anyone wanted to fill up. We did a bit of shunting and managed to get in just before the waterpoint. As we were leaving the boat to go to the shops (yes really!) some grass cutting contractors, who were cutting the verges along the canal and towpath, stopped us and said their mate would be along soon to strim and he wasn’t always very careful near moored boats. This can be a problem with contractors who do the job they have been told to do without thinking about the consequences. There are quite a few incidences of boats having paint chipped and even windows broken as a result of stones flying up during strimming. As we had had so much difficulty getting in to the mooring we didn’t want to move so\u00a0we decided to take a chance that we would get back from the shops before he got there and we did. In fact\u00a0we had moved on quite a long way\u00a0before we saw him ambling up the towpath.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is some wonderful countryside around here and we are now\u00a0approaching the foothills of the Pennines. We are over 500ft above sea level since we came up Bosley Locks. A lot of the canal is on embankments and aquaducts\u00a0crossing the valleys\u00a0and the views are superb. You can even see Wales from here!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday 18th May You know that farm we were moored up near last night? Well, it turned out to be a dog boarding kennels! We should have realised when\u00a0we kept…<\/p>\n

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