Hungerford to Crofton

A misty morning and a. bit chilly as we leave last nights mooring, and again we are straight away into a lock the first of twenty four today. We leave the houses that sit on the canal bank and pass by the 19-C church,

And again we are in water meadows and pastures rich in buttercups, it lovely and peaceful with only the sound of nature, except for the roar of the trains that go to and forth to the West Country. We travel over a aqueduct but it's a small one and hardly noticed. 

Next we pass near the village of Froxfield with its main feature the Somerset Hospital, and again we are back in open countryside and the sun burns off the mist and makes a welcome warm appearance. 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bedwyn

Little and Great Bedwyn are next passed and we were going to moor at the latter, but couldn't find a decent mooring place so we carry on only stopping briefly to take on more water. But it's not to long before we moor at Crofton with its dominating brick pumping station, which houses two 19th-C steam engines.

http://www.croftonbeamengines.org/

It amazes me as how people on the towpath,talk where as on a road or street they don't, whilst at a lock we  met a family and after speaking to them we found out the husband was from Lllandaff in Cardiff, and whilst moored we spoke to another couple and found out her brother use to run the Bistro by where Denise's sister use to live in Poole.