On to Cropredy

 

Set off to a cold grey morning, a bit of a shock for this time of year, but at least it wasn't raining.Oxford canal is another pretty canal, it also. A very twisty and windy one, with a lot a open farmland on both sides, with villages far and few between. One of these villages is Wormleighton a manorial village that still retains a feeling of privacy, next we pass Fenny Compton Wharf where we take on water for the boat but unfortunately it's to early for  the inviting canal side pub The wharf inn. Next we cut through the non existent Fenny Compton tunnel that is no more,then we into the flight of locks at Claydon, this consists of five locks which are nice and easy ones. A couple of more locks but the promised rain has now come and it's tipping down, so we then reach our overnight mooring at Cropredy a sleepy little village which comes awake in August where the Fairport convention concert happens, http://fairportconvention.com/.

 

Also Cropredy was the site of a civil war battle on the 29th June 1644 where Cromwells forces under the command of Waller attacked the bridge at Cropredy in an attempt to open the way to Oxford, despite been outnumbered the Royalist Calvary managed to scatter Wallers army thus protecting Oxford.

So we moored up got out of our wet clothing had something to eat and settled down for A night of telly, we were going to the pub but decided against it.

 

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