Haigh Hall to Withnell Fold

We are finally on the move again, stopping for diesel and services at White Bear Marina at Adlington. We originally planned to moor at Botany Bay and visit the shopping complex, but found nowhere suitable to moor. So we carried on through Johnson’s Hillock locks, a pretty flight of seven. Mooring for the night at Withnell Fold at the side of a former paper mill, which once produced bank-note paper.

Our first view of the Pennine moorlands

White Bear Marina, modern services, including card machine to pay for diesel

Botany Bay, converted mill, now a shopping complex

U-boat on the Leeds and Liverpool?

The Preston Temple of the Church of Latter Day Saints

Approaching Johnson’s Hillock locks, the course of the Lancaster canal on the left, which peters out after a few miles being buried under the M61

Halfway up the flight

Withnell Fold visitors moorings