One for my Mum as we walked up the path towards Saisbury Mr Ratty was sitting on the path.
He soon ran away as we approached.
At Bath bottom lock the canal joins the river, and then it's the Wildcombe flight of locks to negotiate, luck has it that a lock keeper is on hand to help, luckily as one of the deepest lock at 19.5 ft deep is next.
Once we are pass the locks the canal is flanked with houses on one side but with magnificent views over Bath on the other. The canal then goes under a tunnel with Clevanand house home to the old canal headquarters which is perched above, in the roof of the tunnel is a hole where in the old days of paying tolls to use the canal a basket would be dropped down so payment could be made.
Beyond this tunnel another cutting carries the waterway pass two pretty cast iron bridges, another ornate bridge with Sydney gardens on the side of the canal, then we are out of Bath and into the countryside and unfortunately the long line of moored boats that never seem to move even though most of them are on 48 hrs moorings.
Anyway it's not long before we are in the lovey Bathampton a village that is still compact and undeveloped , but gradually becoming a suburb of Bath.
A little fact of Bathampton is here is something that all of in our childhood have played with....................... Plastecine
William Harbutt invented it here, plus it was also produced here http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harbutt
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