Iron Trunk Aquaduct

Breakfast and bookshop in Wolverton...quite honestly, the only things in Wolverton! After a lazy start, we decided we'd turn the boat and head slowly back to Weedon Bec via the local pubs rather than go through built up Milton Keynes and its winding and bridge-laden canal. This also took us over an unusual aquaduct over a motorway. Despite the urban sprawl, we spotted a couple of kingfishers, a couple of herons, a deer, and a very large and brazen rat, as well as ducks, moorhens, geese and swans. Mooring up just past the Iron Trunk Aquaduct over the River Ouse gave us an opportunity to see the structure from the outside, rather than from the top.Read more