On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:02:23 +0100, you wrote: >Nick Atty: >> The Towpath Guide to the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, which goes >> into details of names in fascinating detail, just says: >> "The lock at Deptmore, or Deepmore, is the first of eleven that take the >> canal up to the summit level." > >Steve Wood: >> First? Tixall, surely... > >It all depends on where you're starting from. From Great Haywood >Junction, Tixall would be the first lock although it would be the first >of twelve. If you start from Stafford though, Deptmore/Deepmore would >indeed be the first of eleven!
It's in Chapter 3 "The Climb to the Sumit. Radford to Gailey" -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though likely to die soon
