The Fleur de lys home of the pies.
Last night we sampled the menu in Fleur De Lys, as its noted for its pies I had a Kate and Sydney pie and Denise a Bloo Moo pie, the meal was very good and the chips were done just right, so we would recommend a visit if you were ever near here.
This morning is a beautiful sunny morning, we leave our mooring and straight away into a lock which is nice and easy and then we top up with water. Then we are off again with farmland stretching to hills on both sides of the canal, which again is a very nice canal with beautiful scenery.
Besides eight locks we also travel over Yarnigale Aqueduct which is probably the smallest aqueduct in the world with a length of 42 ft or 13M. Preston Bagot, a small village is passed, and then we moor up by the village of Wootton Wawen with a general store which we visit for milk and bread. St Peters Church the oldest church in Warwickshire dominates the village and we have a nose around. .
http://www.saxonsanctuary.org.uk/index.php/home
The appearance of ghosts in Wootton Wawen churchyard has been reported over a period of hundreds of years - ever since the Black Death of 1348. A part of the churchyard is said to contain the remains of victims of the Black plague but the victims died in. Coventry, not in Wootton Wawen! Legend has it that Coventry did not wish to admit that the dreaded Black Death had reached the city so the corpses were taken from Coventry at night and interred in the local churchyard in the spot now known as the Coventry Piece.
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Next to the church stands Wootton Hall, a handsome Italianate stone construction dating from 1637. Until recent times the Hall was owned by Catholic families {principally the Caringtons) and numerous stories and legends have been woven through its history. Mrs Fitzherbert, the morganatic wife of King George IV, spent her childhood at the Hall and visited it after her marriage. The hauntingly perfumed ghost of the Grey Lady, who wanders the Hall, is said to be her, also a ghost of a man was also reported in a former dairy of Wootton Hall. When the dairy was demolished in 1861, skeletons of a man and woman were found.
Sleep tight speak to you tomorrow.
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