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A short walk around Gargrave, showing the outline area and the canal. We left Greenberfield Top Lock at 11am the following day, we were late leaving as the weather remained wet and windy in the morning. It was like Piccadilly station, I think everyone was waiting for the weather to clear up before starting out. when we got to the bottom of the three locks there was still 5 narrowboats waiting to ascend the locks. We cruised through to East Marten and intended to stop here but East Marten was very popular. We attempted to moor in a number of different places but the canal was very shallow so we were unable to do so. We eventually moored up just above Bank Newton Locks where we stayed overnight.
The following day started cool with bright sunshine, we left our mooring around 0845 to descend Bank Newton Locks. there were a number of volunteer lockies on duty and due to water shortages they asked us if we wouldn't mind waiting for another boat. About 20 mins later we were going through the locks accompanied by the lockies and another boat, it took around 1.5 hours to descend the 5 locks. We arrived in Gargrave and moored on the 72 hour visitor moorings for 3 days then moved past the lock into some 2 weekly moorings. Gargrave is a delightful village which has the Pennine Way and the River Aire running through it. It has a well stocked Co Op and lovely walks. There are good long term mooring between bridges 171 and 172.
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August 2021
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