Banbury to Lower Heyford

Another lovely sunny morning but as previously a bit on the chilly side, we get up wash, dress and have breakfast and then it's of to do a bit of food shopping we get a few fresh products to see us for the next couple of days before we get back to the boat.

Then after putting the shopping away we break our mooring and off we set, Denise's first job is to operate the swing bridge wich spans ther canal in the middle of the shopping centre, then we have a lock before we stop to take on water and get rid of some rubbish. 

And off we go again

Then we leave the urbanisation of Banbury and it's back it open countryside again, the train runs adjacent to the canal and the busy M40 crosses over a few times with its hustle and bustle of vehicles.

The river Cherwell also follows this part of the canal  this rural stretch of the canal is punctuated by the characteristic wooden lift bridges which fortunate for us are in the open position.

King Sutton village can be seen in the distance and then its on to the village of Anyho a pretty village whose village square has be unchanged,onwards not stopping we travel into Somertons deep lock, and at 12 ft deep it's pretty deep.

Then onto Upper Heyford  with its difficult lift bridge, so Denise steers the boat while I operate it then we arrive at our over night mooring, at Lower Heyford, here we moor right next to the railway station which is a main line to  London, high speed trains and heavy good train are our companion for the night, the boat actually shudders when the latter trains pass. And no internet for the last couple of days a mast is down for repair , so will have to upload these at a later date.

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