A really great day today. Only four locks, but got our exercise by going for a 5+ mile walk through Cannock Chase and then back via the Shugborough Hall estate. The footpath goes right through the estate, so we didn’t have to pay (though we couldn’t go round the house itself !). Then back across the historic “Essex Bridge” to the canal.

The afternoon was a gentle chug in lovely sunshine, broken by a stop in Rugeley to go to Morrisons. We stopped for the night just outside Handsacre