Scholar Green (Macclesfield Canal) to Church Lawton (Trent & Mersey Canal)

Beautiful Night Sky at Scholar Green

Coming into Hall Green Stop Lock

Going over Poole Aqueduct

We are on the move today and fortunately the sun was shining, so we set off along the canal and stopped at the water point to fill up with water.  Just along from the tap is Hall Green Stop Lock which is only 1ft deep.  A boat had just come out so it was ready for us and Kev took the boat in and I emptied it and we were soon on our way again.

Coming to Hardings Wood Junction

Passing Red Bull Pub

Distant views of Mow Cop

Coming out the paired locks

We were soon going over Poole Aqueduct which goes over the Trent & Mersey canal and where we moored on the way up.  Also from here there is still lovely views of Mow Cop in the distance, wonder when we won’t be able to see it anymore!   The canal then takes a sharp left and on along there for a bit and then we were approaching Hardings Wood Junction and out onto the Trent & Mersey we went leaving the Macclesfield Canal behind, which was quite sad as it is a lovely canal and we have thoroughly enjoyed our time travelling up and down it but onto pastures new.

And into another lock we go

We turned left at the junction and into our first proper lock for today, we are doing six.  A lot of the locks on this section are paired locks, two single locks side by side which makes passage easy and quite speedy.  We were soon through there and onto the next one.  There was a few boats coming up so that helped as well.

Waiting for last lock to fill

We worked our way down the locks and were in the last lock and just coming out when would you believe it, it started raining and heavy at that, but luckily it was only a shower and by the time we had moored up, it had stopped and the sun was out again.

We had lunch then went for a walk down the locks to Rode Heath about a mile and a half away. There is a pub there and a shop/post office.  We sat by the canal for a bit and then walked back up the locks to the boat.

We are staying here tonight and going down a few more locks tomorrow.

Moored at Church Lawton