Hungerford

A 'busy' day with plenty of locks. Along this section there are very few pounds over a mile in length, most much shorter. Altogether, we worked some fifteen locks, the first few of which were very heavy.


Most of the signs instructing boaters to leave the locks empty seemed to have been removed but some are still in place - and one that required it to be filled.

At Hungerford, we moored for lunch above the swing bridge. before we set off, Christine went to look at the church whilst Mike caught up with yesterday's blog. The church had a full width West Gallery (now partially filled by an organ) as well as a thirteenth century tomb of Sir Robert de Hungerford, after whom the town is named. he was very influential at court.

On again and we soon passed through Hungerford - not stopping this time. At Kintbury we stopped to fill up with water and use the other services.

As we set off, a boat from Foxhangers approached and shared the lock with us. As they had a fit crew of eight we opted to stay with them until we could find a mooring for the night - they were bent on making it to Newbury as they have to turn around first thing tomorrow morning. Eventually we found a spot just below Benham Bridge.