Caldon Canal

Today's the day  . . . . . . . . . . . to go up the junction

We had left the Trent & Mersey Canal at Stoke the day before and were now on the smaller Caldon Canal.  According to the guide the Caldon is 'one of the most delightful waterways in England, a thing of rare beauty, all the more enchanting because it is unfathomably underutilised'.

And that was our opinion too.  This is where the Caldon splits again into two arms one of which heads towards Leek.  We followed the other one (on the left here) via the most elegant of locks and bridges, the work of that eminent designer of Canal systems, James Brindley.

This arm once went to Uttoxeter through one of the most remote parts of Staffordshire . . . . .