We didn't go to Macclesfield

Moored at Higher Poynton

Having moored for the night just before Macclesfield we decided to spend a while looking around the town. We passed through attractive scenery in the southern outskirts of Macclesfield and stopped for 150 litres of diesel which will keep us going for the next month or so and a loo pump-out. Arriving at the "Macclesfield Visitor Moorings", as identified by a large sign, we found the small length of canalside fully occupied by 2 boats.

Fortunately there were further Visitor moorings just the other side of a bridge - again space for perhaps 2 boats at the most. We tried to get in but couldn't because the canal edge was too shallow. So we decided to move on. Surely a town like Macclesfield should realise the amount of custom its shops could gain from passing boaters and provide proper moorings.

Anyway, we moved on the Bollington, a small stone-built town with a couple of impressive ex-mills, now offices. Here there were excellent moorings so we stopped and walked to the small set of shops to buy some provisions for the weekend.

After lunch at Bollington we motored on through beautiful countyside to Higher Poynton, where we are now moored in an area of the canal which has been turned into an attractive lake by mining subsidence.