On through the Shropshire countryside

The Audlem flight

After Hacks Green, the canal traverses the empty countryside in a more or less straight line with the only feature of note being the 15 Audlem locks and the outskirts of Audlem village. There is little else apart from the fields, woods and a few bridges.

We started early at 7:50 hoping to miss the rain. We failed, there were intermittant showers, some heavy throughout our 5.5 hour trip covering 5.3 miles and the 15 locks. We have moored at the bottom of the 5 Adderley locks which we will go through tomorrow. As I write this blog at 16:15 the weather has cleared up and it looks like being a pleasant evening.

Back to Telford and his abilities, it is worth noting that all the locks on this canal are ascending, Birmingham being higher than Nantwich. Despite the hills on the route Telford avoided any locally descending locks.