{"id":4927,"date":"2016-09-25T18:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sv-ananda.com\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2020-01-29T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:35:04","slug":"anderton-junction-lift-locks-to-preston-brook-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"Anderton Junction Lift Locks to Preston Brook Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, September 23<\/p>\n

We left Anderton Junction Lift Locks at 9:00am & looked forward to an easy day to travel to the lock located just before Preston Brook Tunnel. Our travel distance was only about 7 miles but it included passing through two other tunnels-each one was about 500 yards long.
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\nAfter passing through the 2 tunnels we stopped at Dutton Breach, a location where the canal wall failed in 2012 & the valley below was flooded. Then we walked up the canal about a kilometer & went down a side road to the Bluebell Nursery & Tea Room – a local nursery with beautiful gardens & a tea room.<\/p>\n

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Catherine & I enjoyed a nice cup of tea & some cakes & then she went off to tour the gardens while I stayed behind to catch up on my blogging.
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\nWe were just getting ready to cast off when we spotted our friends Chris & Jennifer headed our way. Time for one last gam!<\/p>\n

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After saying our goodbyes & exchanging contact information we went our separate ways.<\/p>\n

We traveled for about another hour & moored up for the night at the last lock we will pass through before entering the Preston Brook tunnel.
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\nDirectly across from where we are moored there is a dry dock for narrowboats. The boats are floated into the dry dock & then stoplogs are used to block off water from flowing into the chamber. Then the water is pumped out & the sides & bottom of the boat can be serviced.
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\nThis is a pretty neat setup. Wish I could have got the chance to see one of the boats getting serviced.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, September 23 We left Anderton Junction Lift Locks at 9:00am & looked forward to an easy day to travel to the lock located just before Preston Brook Tunnel. Our travel distance was only about 7 miles but it included passing through two other tunnels-each one was about 500 yards long. After passing through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-uk-adventure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1ht","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12136,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}