Marple

Marple is a small town that is historically in Cheshire but since 1974 has been in the Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, surrounded by hills and we are moored up at Bridge #1 of the Macclesfield canal, 50 m from where it joins the Peak Forest canal. The Pennines are in the near distance. The small but constantly flowing Goyt River flows thru here. The Goyt is the beginning of the Mersey river.

Before leaving Sutton we visited a house near the canal aquaduct where there is plaque commorating James Brindley, one of the engineers who designed and built the canal system, some of which was carrying coal and silk before Australia was discovered.

Many birds live on the canals. These are no good for eating.

These are.

These arn't

You can't catch these to find out.

WW2 memoribillia in a special room at the Ring-O Bells pub, dedicated to local people who died in the second world war

An oak tree makes an interesting sculpture in the grounds near the Marple library

Raining today but we went between showers to the library and the shops. You must stock up when moored close to shops, saves carrying stuff. It is not done to wheel the shopping trolley away from the supermarket so we take a travel case with wheels and fill it up.

.....The writer and linguist, George Borrow, described Marple Aqueduct as the 'Grand Aqueduct' and in his famous travel-log, 'Wild Wales', published in 1862, he wrote:
'Few things so beautiful in their origins as this Canal, which it be known, with its locks and its aqueducts, the grandest of which last is the stupendous erection near Stockport which by the bye filled my mind when a boy with wonder, constitutes the grand work of England, and yields to nothing in the world of the kind, with the exception of the Great Canal of China.' ....read more at.....

http://www.pittdixon.go-plus.net/pfc-aqueducts/pfc-aqueducts.htm