Back to the Grand Union canal and another push towards Birmingham. The start of this walk marks the end of the need to uses buses – the end of this walk and all future walks start and end at train stations.
Start of the walk is back at The Two Boats pub, Long Itchington
And the first bridge is again, bridge 25 – Cuttle bridge
Bridge 26 – Bickley’s bridge
Railway bridge 26A – disused railway
Bridge 27 – Bascote bridge
Bridge 28 – Toll House bridge
Staircase lock at Bascote Locks – three sets of gates and two locks co-joined
Next lock down the Bascote Locks
Bridge 29 – Splash bridge – time to get a mooove on 🙂
Welsh Road lock
Bridge 31 – Longhole bridge
Lock 20, approaching Fosse Road bridge
Bridge 32 – Fosse Road bridge
Lock number 22, part of Fosse Locks
Bridge 33 – unnamed
Bridge 33A Railway bridge – disused railway
Bridge 34 – Bull bridge
Bridge 35 – Radford Road bridge
Bridge 36 – Gulliman’s bridge
Bridge 37 – unnamed
Bridge 37A – unnamed
Bridge 38 – unnamed
Bridge 38A – railway bridge
Bridge 39 – footbridge
Bridge 40 – unnamed
Canal scene in the middle of Leamington
Bridge 41 – unnamed -carries the B4087
Bridge 42 – footbridge
Bridge 43 – unnamed – carries the A452
Canalside in western Leamington
Bridge 44 – Leam bridge
Aqueduct over the Warwick railway line
Looking west over the railway aqueduct
Bridge 45 – footbridge
Aqueduct over the river Avon
Bridge 46 – Emscote Road bridge
Bridge 47 – unnamed bridge
Bridge 48 – unnamed
Bridge 49 – unnamed – carries A429
Nice terracing and canalside decking
Bridge 49A – footbridge
Bridge 49B – footbridge and the first ascending lock – bottom lock of Cape Locks
Bridge 50 – Wedgenock Park bridge
Bridge 50A
Bridge 51 at Budbrooke Junction
Entrance to Saltisford Arm
Bridge 51B – view to Hatton Bottom lock
Anticipating the start of the next walk – the next lock in the Hatton flight
Looking back at the end of the walk, atop Hatton Bottom Lock
Progress – 114 miles from London completed, 22 1/4 to Typhoon Basin, Birmingham
Overall walk was about 10 miles.