Nick Atty wrote: > 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"
Fair enough then :-) I spoke with the lady at the house today. She calls it Deepmoor (and yes this is her spelling rather than a typo.) Steve NB Bream
