We left our mooring to another sunny but cold morning, our plan today was to do the last bit of the Coventry canal, it's a five mile spur that ends in the heart of the city.This part of the canal has definitely an industrial feel to it, but also have signs of regeneration with new house and apartments being built around the canal. This part of the canal twist and turns into the city, between bridge 3 and 2 is "Cash Hundred houses "an elegant row of weavers cottages, where the living accommodation is on the lower two floors, with the top story being occupied by the looms.
Once we reach the basin we turnaround and the retrace our path back to Hawkesbury Junction, stopping for supplies at bridge 8 where there is a handy Tescos right next to the canal. Saying that, everybody from Coventry must of been in it shopping for the Easter weekend.
The basin at Coventry
At Hawkesbury, Denise has to dust of her lock key and use it, to open the lock at the beginning or End how you look at it on the Oxford canal.
We were planning to stop at bridge 4 for a pint, but the pub "the elephant and castle "has now been converted into a house, so our next plan was to stop at the village of Ansty where the "rose and castle" pub is, but unfortunately no mooring spaces with what it looks like a lot of overstayers using the mooring plots.
So on we travel till we reach Stretton Wharf and moor up, with a long walk to the pub so we won't bother and stay on the boat and have dinner then settle down for the night.
Oxford Canal
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