No stripey pole at the border, yet.

We set off with the day being cool but dry and maybe a chance of sun later.

This mile stone is just about where the crossing from Yorkshire to Lancashire used to be. The boarder has changed many times and it is now no longer here

The canal winds its way towards the Greenberfield Locks and the landscape seems to open up as we are nearing the summit pound. There are plenty of cyclists and walkers, with or without dogs.

Helen waiting for me to set the first lock and in the distance a very shapely drumlin.

When this flight was originally built it was a 2 rise staircase lock. However it was soon found to be very wasteful of water, often leaving the summit pound low. The old route was to the north of the present cut and in the photo above you can see the bridge over the original line. It is now used much as a garden shed.

This is the same bridge that has had this side filled in making a nice spot for all that 'stuff'.

We arrived just as the voluntary lock keeper arrived so he helped set the lock for me. Nobody was on the water point so we took the opportunity to top up the water and drop off the rubbish. The above little house is right above the feeder that comes from Winterburn Reservoir that is over 8 miles away. In 1769 there was a proposal to build a branch of the Leeds/Liverpool to Settle from the top of Greenberfield Locks. An Act of Parliament was sort as a separate canal but it failed. If it had been built it would have been a stunning route and a beautiful destination. The Winterburn Reservoir was built to supply the canal and it took from 1885 to 1893 and as can be seen the house was built in the later year. I wonder if the opening ceremony was held here as they lifted the sluice to allow water into the canal and so the date on the building may be the day it all started. It is now used by the lock keepers.

There are plenty of trees when you get past Barnoldswick, or Barlick, however we stopped for a while to go and do some shopping at a handy Co-Op and the old centre of the town is very nice indeed and has a very nice collection of shops.

There are visitor moorings at Salterforth that are nice and handy for the Anchor pub. We stopped her previously so we carried on. A bloke from a moored boat told us the food was fantastic and there was loads of it too. The bend is pretty sharp and not a place to meet a wide beam swing through. There is a rope roller on the corner too.

For some reason this scenery reminds me of the Severn up near Ironbridge but it is just the north of Foulridge.

I'm not sure when the boundaries changed once again but apparently this is now the place that we leave Heaven and descend into hell, almost literally!!

We moored up on the visitor moorings just before the Foulridge tunnel and decided to go for a walk around the village. As we passed the old warehouse we thought coffee and cake would be in order so stopped for a while. Cafe Cargo was very busy and is open every day from 0830 and the breakfasts looked very good value indeed. We walked up a little and found the village green which still maintains it's village identity.

This is something you will never see in Hull, houses on a hill! It is so strange to us that I felt it worth a photo.

As we walked back to the boat we saw a couple of these Leeds and Liverpool Canal Co boundary stones

Just by our mooring is this lime kiln. Apparently there is one at either end of the tunnel and went to provide lime for the cement used in the building of the tunnel and bridges etc. At first the limestone and coal was brought on horse back. Once the canal had been completed the barges brought the coal from near Burnley and the limestone from Rainhall Quarry. The kiln was in use until the quarry closed in the late 1860's.

The weather was very dull and drizzly and despite having cleaned out the stove and cleaned the glass we lit the fire to cheer us up, despite the weather turning very muggy and warm.