We had a quiet night thank goodness – I was worried that they wind would keep knocking us around but we were quite sheltered at Offenham Lock.
Muffin loved being at the lock - we gave him total freedom as there was no one else around and, having been cooped up in the marina for a week, he was like a pig in clover!
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| Lock waiting pontoon at Evesham Lock |
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| Evesham Lock |
It took us much less time to
get down to Evesham than it had done going up and we were soon back at Evesham
Lock. Yesterday the lock keeper was
rather unpleasant but maybe he was having a bad day as today he was nice! I saw a pair of yellow wagtails and apparently
there are a pair of kingfishers at the lock too.
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| Chadbury Lock |
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| Lovely flowering trees in garden by Chadbury Lock |
Down through Chadbury Lock –
Mike and Jenny used to look after this lock as Mike was a staunch supporter of
the Avon Navigation Trust. It looked a
bit sad today but maybe that’s because I felt sad going through it.
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| Cropthorne Mill |
The next lock is Fladbury and
the setting as you leave the lock and look back has to be in my top 5 favourite
scenes on the canals – it might even be my number 1! There are two mills. Fladbury is on the left and Cropthorne on the
right. Fladbury was owned by the
Crabtree Family and has been restored by its current owners, David and Anne
Wynn. It houses a mini hydro power system based on a water turbine and water
wheel, as well as a well equipped workshop.
Cropthorne is an impressive building of c1700, the last of a succession
of mills built on this site.
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| Fladbury Mill |
We had planned to stop at
Pershore for the night but the weather forecast for tomorrow isn’t good so we
ploughed on and stopped at Comberton Quay.
There is nothing there and just room for two short boats or one 60 foot
and an even shorter one but no-one wanted to join us – in fact no other boat
passed us once we had moored up!
Offenham Lock to Comberton Quay
18.71 miles
6 locks
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