Don't know what happened but we didn't wake up till 10.00 am this morning, so it was a quick breakfast before setting off , it not long before we pass the village King Langley, here In 1865, Dr. George Wander, a Swiss chemist based in Berne, established the high nutritional value of barley malt. He then began to manufacture malt extract and launched the food drink, ‘Ovomaltine, and a factory producing Ovaltine was created,and it continued to employ local people until its demise in 2002.
The canal follows the course the river Gade, the channel is wide bordered by fields and market gardens, with the sound of the A41 which is never far away, next we are travelling through Apsley with it museum of a Victorian working paper mill. On through Hemel Hempstead with its magic roundabout http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead) and Boxmoor where many rare breeds of sheep and cattle can be seen which belong to Boxmoor Trust. Also in 1802, the last highwayman to be hung and buried at the scene of his crime robbed a post boy on the turnpike on Boxmoor meadows. His remains are interred in Boxmoor meadows near the place where he was hung and the likely spot is marked by two stones
And on towards our overnight mooring Winkwell, with its canal side pub which we have a few pints after our hard day of going through locks,.
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