I walked into Harefield today, Pearson’s guide said it was a
15 minute walk uphill from Black Jack’s Lock, so I had a choice either walk
from here to the main road into Harefield or along the towpath as the guide
said until I reached the lock then uphill into town, I decided to walk the main
road there, it’s slightly shorter, and then along the
towpath back and I was glad I did, it
was a steady fairly steep uphill walk all the way along the main road about a
mile and a half, the Town was quite pleasant but nothing other than that, I
picked up some supplies in the Co-Op and then headed back downhill towards the
canal along the road suggested in the guide, it was steep, very steep and about
half a mile to the towpath and I for one would not have liked to walk it in the
uphill direction. Then a pleasant walk along the towpath for just under 2 miles
back to the boat, so all in all about a four mile round trip.
These canalside homes would be nice, out of the door onto your own little pontoon mooring and nice and colourful.
This little troll was either warning you not to go down this backwater or waiting for the toll money, I am not sure which.
Quite a simple but pretty little run off feature.
And this is the aforementioned Black Jack's Lock.
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