We have not far to go and quite a bit of time before we need to be there, so decided that we’d stay put today. It’s a nice spot, and the weather didn’t look great either. While Macc had his mid-morning nap, Adrian went out for a walk, covering the loops I did yesterday with the addition of taking in High Lane. He got a little bit wet in a rain shower; when I went out for a walk after lunch, I got very wet! I wanted to cover a bit more of Middlewood Way, so from the bridge ahead of us I walked to the road, crossed it, and took the signposted footpath. After going past a row of cottages I had to cross a horse field which was extremely muddy.
I had to cross another field to get to Middlewood Way, and when I reached the path I headed south. There re several places where the farms have crossings for animals and machinery, then at High Lane there’s what’s left of the station, from when this used to be the Macclesfield, Bollington, and Marple Railway.
The very rounded bridge head carries the A6 over the path. I walked as far as Middlewood Station, which is the furthest north we’ve walked before. Then I took a path off towards High Lane and some tarmac tracks towards the cricket club. This brought me out to the canal arm of the North Cheshire Cruising Club, where Kingley Vale was launched exactly 11 months ago.
I could have gone off to the left here and out onto the main road, but instead went along the edge of the cricket ground which comes out at the bridge over the entrance to the NCCC arm.
It was shortly after this that it rained so hard I sheltered under the A6 bridge at High Lane. Back at the boat we rain the engine for an hour to put some charge in the batteries, and Adrian gave me a hair cut. And of course the weather has cheered up a bit.
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