A long day

Off we set again we take on water at the wharf in Devizes the canal now enter a long wooded cutting spanned by several elegant stone bridges, some are listed as ancient monuments. Houses with their well kept gardens that run to the canal edge  and the canal carries on to the landscape of the Wiltshire Wolds.

 Bishop  Cannings  church tower comes into view, and rolling hills climb steeply to the North while pastures fall away to the South. The canal is lock free following the co tours of the land, pass the village of All Cannings  and Honeystreet, with the 1812 white horse carving in the distant hill.

Next the villages Alton Priors, Woodsborough and Wilcot are passed by.

The countryside is very English with farmland and rolling countryside, next Pewsey with its wharf and canal side pub drift by as we aren't stopping for a while today, Wootton Rivers with it thatched cottages, then we start the first of our locks, four more before we reach Bruce tunnel, then we reach Crofton top lock then another six before we reach tonight's mooring spot, a lot later than we are usually moored up, but should mean that we will have an easier day tomorrow.