Trent & Mersey Canal - Wheelock to Middlewich (time lapse)

The stretch of the Trent and Mersey Canal (Mail Line -- Harding's Wood to Middlewich) forms part of both the Cheshire and Four Counties Rings. Since we were doing the Cheshire Ring clockwise and then the Four Counties Ring anticlockwise on this trip we had to do this bit twice.

This video shows the last two and a half miles to Middlewich as we were starting out on our second week beginning the Four Counties Ring. It was shot from the pointy end with our one remaining camera.

We moored overnight near Rumps Lock No 70 and had a wonderful dinner at The Kinderton Arms. Sadly the pub is now closed as documented in this extract from Bestpubs.co.uk:

"After a refurbishment this was a brilliant pub, then the owners, trust inns, forced the tennats out by removing the toilets and leaving a single communal toilet for both male & femail, the tennants had no choice but to close the pub & the locals have vowed never to return if it ever opens again" (their speeling not mine)

Making our way to the bar through a crowd of colourful, interesting locals we bought drinks and asked if they were doing food. "Only bar food" replied the landlady handing us a menu. We repaired to the dining area and studied both the menu and the colourful, interesting locals, ordered dinner and sat in anticipation of culinary delights. Several drinks later we were still anticipating. Dinner appeared after about two hours. The portions were huge and everything was freshly prepared from scratch. Their can't be many pubs where the landlady is willing to spend two hours preparing and cooking dishes such as Steak & Kidney and Chicken & Mushroom pies from their basic ingredients while running a busy bar full of colourful, interesting locals.

Still, she did and the results were excellent. After settling the bill, a mighty sixteen quid for dinner for four, we waddled back to the boat hoping that our over indulgence wouldn't sink it!

We awoke next morning feeling colourful and interesting and wondered if the ICI chemical works on the other side of the cut had anything to do with this. As we sailed off towards Middlewich the Kinderton Arms Fishing Club were pegged out in colourful and interesting ways.

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• cheshire
• waterway

[steuart51]

Certainly a well-oiled lock working team- is this where the big salt factory is? Or am I remembering it wrong..

[PIGandPINEAPPLE]

Nowt wrong this the old grey matter matey that's where the big, salty ICI factory is. I also seem to remember that the big, posh, beamy looking house right next to it is the works sports and social club.

[babutna]

Finally an interesting way to view the canals. If only it happened that quick in real life. lol. And how did you score such great weather? Good for you though for loving what you do so much. Nice vid.

[PIGandPINEAPPLE]

Thank you kindly, we do seem to have a bit of a knack of attracting good weather on our annual pilgrimages back to Dear Old Blighty. Mind you, we're counting our lucky stars that we're nowhere near the place at the moment with the monsoons shutting down much of the canal system.

[steuart51]

Apologies, I missed the picture of the salt at the beginning!

[Louizalass]

Such happy times! My husband's family had a converted nesting lifeboat called 'Mary' on the Leeds-Liverpool canal in the 60s/70s. In 1993 we took our own children on a narrowboat holiday. They've both travelled the world since but say there's been nothing to touch their canal boat holiday!

[shrory]

Great video, brought back a lot good memories of when I lived in Middlewich,

Ray Keen, exe Newton Brewery, Mddlewich, now living the life in Canada