Set off about 9.30 with it taking well over an hour to get to the top of the Claydon flight (lock 17). By the time we arrived the lock was open and any queue had long since disappeared. We met boats coming the other way through the flight, but apart from these we saw very very few boats moving all day. It appears as though BW's warnings and the restrictions have frightened most boats away. This was weird compared to our voyage through here a few weeks ago when boats were wall to wall for the Cropredy Festival.
At Cropredy we parked up and walked into the village to get bread and milk and a few other essential supplies ;-) Whilst in the village we sought out the Church. This is a beautiful 12th & 13th century church. Took photos of gargoyles on the aisle roofline.
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| St Mary The Virgin, Cropredy |
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Gargoyles & Grotesques taken 30.8.2011
1. Negroid figure 2. Cat 3. Monkey 4. Man with beard 5. Hooded man (monk?) 6. Disfigured man (my favourite) 7. Figure wearing cat mask 8. Proper gargoyles are connected with water-spouts 9. Curly haired face |
As we could not get any internet connection we decided to move south from Cropredy for the night, ending up only a few hundred yards north of where we dropped one of the bikes in the canal on the way up.
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