And so to Nantwich

Hack Green Locks to Nantwich, 3 miles 2 locks

A few rest days at Hack Green, well I say rest days, one was spent visiting the dentist in Stafford via a taxi from the little bridge by the locks to the station in Nantwich and thence to Stafford via Crewe.

We also arranged for Mr Tesco to deliver us some groceries and for the delivery of some new chairs that we had bought/ordered in Market Drayton last week, we were not comfortable with the ones we had and managed to sell those to make room for new ones.

And with all that done we pulled the pins this morning on the lovely quiet mooring, where I had also enjoyed some great walks with Lucy...

It was busy with boats too, and, typical, just as we pulled the pins, two narrowboats came through the bridge.. so we waited for those to go through the locks, and along with Moore2Life we were the third boat through.

A nice run down to Nantwich, a lot of moored boats about though, but we found a space by the A530 aqueduct..

We are moored just up those steps to the right along the embankment.  Lunch then in Nantwich today at this wonderful bookshop come pavement cafe on the left in this lovely old building..

I loved this town, not a clone town as we tend to find as we cruise the waterways, but lots of independent family businesses, and seemingly the locals like it that way.  The only supermarket we saw was Morrisons, and then that was just outside the centre near the station.  There sure was plenty to look at, with ginnels going off in all directions getting my attention as I curiously peered down them looking at the little shops.

The church dominated the skyline from where we were moored, the walk to town was about 10 minutes, although there is a bus for those not wanting to walk that far.. it goes every half hour from the bus stop close to the bottom of the steps from the canal embankment.. but I walked to town twice today, having forgotten to take the post to the post office first time!

Certainly a place I shall visit more on the way back, there is still plenty to explore there.

Andy Edwards told me not to miss out on visiting Nantwich, well thanks Andy, you are right!