Cruising to Kinver.

Other than the talkative angler who chatted to his girl friend until 0230 it was a very quiet mooring. We were off before 1000 and heading to Wordsley Junction and there head down the the Stourbridge Canal. It is a lovely stretch of canal and was nice and peaceful to today.

All these horses can't like butter as they had left the butter cups!

The last of the Stourton Locks where the Stourbridge Canal joins the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal  with the signpost at the bottom. We turned left.

We stopped just before Stewponey Lock to take on water but couldn't find the rubbish skips anywhere. The Toll House seemed to have no function today. Maybe it is only a matter of time!

The round spill washes on the Staffs. and Worcester are often this round type which look very different.

 Helen coming do/wn the horse tunnel from Stewpony Lock.

The very short, 25 yd, Dunsley Tunnel through the red sandstone ridge.

We stopped at the services before Kinver Lock to drop the rubbish off and were soon on the move again. The church of St. Peter's overlooks the town from the Kinver Edge.

After mooring up and having lunch we wandered in to the town to do a little shopping. We then decided to go for a bit of a walk to find the rock houses at Holy Austin Rock.

These houses were lived in until the 1960's. In 1841 there were eleven families living in them. The National Trust took them on after they were finished with as they had no proper sanitation, although they did have mains gas and water. From here we wandered up to the top of the Edge and the views were fantastic.

Helen was amazed at this view with so many trees and 'random' hills and no pylons and wind turbines. But she is from Hull and there are no hills to get any views from! From Kinver Edge we walked down toward the town and the Church.

This is the view from St. Peter's Church. It really dominates the skyline.

Once we got down to canal level we decided to go for a pint at the Vine just by the canal bridge. Tried the local beers Enville and Kinver and it was very pleasant too. I dashed for some chips whilst Helen got the rest of the tea ready and now we are stuffed.