Saturday 9 July 2011

Down the Avon…

This morning Rog was  woken up at 6.30 by lots of banging and crashing and loud voices outside our porthole – they were setting up stalls for some kind of market.  We were glad that we had decided to move downriver for the night.  We untied about 9 am and headed off.  The sun was shining, not quite ‘river weather’, but nearly, and the Avon was very pretty.  Two locks later (very hard locks, I hasten to add!) and we found a delightful spot just above Stan Clover lock.  We settled in for the day and then went for a walk after lunch around Luddington. There were some lovely cottages, a manor house, a village green, a cute little church, and not much else!  Back to Stratford tomorrow.

SDC10992Leaving Stratford

SDC10993Anonymous(or Weir Brake) Lock

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SDC10995The railway bridge, remnant of the former Stratford to Cheltenham line which is now a footpath called The Greenway, part of National Route 5

SDC10999Stan Clover Lock

SDC10997Weir at Stan Clover Lock

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SDC11001Lovely mooring

SDC11002Luddington Church

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SDC11006Gorgeous ‘chocolate box’ cottages

2.9 miles and 2 locks

2 comments:

  1. maybe we should get young offenders to built more locks !!! Lol

    Lou xxx

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  2. ha ha - but they could come and work them for us!!

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