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4/23/2019

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  Tuesday 23rd April

​It's Easter weekend and we are moored up at the lovely Tixhall Wide and from there we walk into Great Haywood to explore the floating market. We have a look around the National Trust property Shugborough Hall.  The grounds and mansion are open to the public and is marketed as "The Complete Working Historic Estate" which includes a working model farm museum dating from 1805 complete with a working water mill, kitchens and dairy.  Its defiantly worth the visit and has an interesting history to lengthy to go into here.

We leave Tixhall wide and travel up to the end of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and turn left at Great Haywood Junction towards Stone. After picking up some water at the services we continue our journey North.  Passing Great Haywood Marina and negotiating the four locks up to Stone, we pass through Western upon Trent, Salt, Sandon and Little Stoke, the railway line running close to the canal here throughout. Even so the  views are pretty and the canal is remote in many  places with an air of peace and tranquility.     We moor at Stone on the visitor moorings for the next two days where we have a parcel being delivered and to pick up some groceries.  


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