I left Chester along the Shropshire Union Canal, on a dry, grey and intermittently windy morning. Canals can be surprising varied, and this is an interesting one, where each bridge creates its own little environment, and strange junk punctuates the long miles. A long stretch of barges made the canal into a kind of watery [...]
Posts Tagged ‘A41’
Down to the Crossroads: Chester to Broxton
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged A41, a553, broxton, cheshire, egerton, pheasant, shropshire union canal on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In My Blakean Day: Chester: Station to Premier Inn
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged A41, chester, st john the bapist on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Before setting out this morning, I watched a recording of the Red Dragon movie. As I like to follow trails of coincidence as well as physical routes, in Chester I looked for some William Blake in Waterstones, one of the shops in the medieval Rows, a sort of upper storey to the streets. (The title [...]