Our Canal Trip 1986
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The following files are the logs taken by J. Harry Cutts on our first trip on the English canals. It starts with our travels from Columbia, MO, USA to Burton on Trent, England. Then follows our adventures along the canals and then finally to London.


Date Canal Miles Traveled # of Locks Vertical Change Location
08-31-1986 Trent and Mersey Start of Canal Trip Burton-on-Trent
8-31-1986 Trent and Mersey 9 7 33' 8" Alrewas
9-1-1986 Trent and Mersey 12 3/4 7 46' 6" Great Haywood
9-2-1986 Trent and Mersey 15 13 122' 2" Stoke-on-Trent
9-3-1986 Trent and Mersey 10 3/4 21 199' 7" Rhode Heath
9-4-1986 Shropshire Union, Middlewich Branch 10 17 167' 3" Church Minshull
9-5-1986 Shropshire Union 14 1/4 4 34' 3" Audlem
9-6-1986 Shropshire Union ½ 13 80' Audlem
9-7-1986 Shropshire Union 8 ½ 10 64' Tyrley
9-8-1986 Shropshire Union 20 1 7' Brewood
9-9-1986 Staffordshire and Worcester 12 3/4 3 17' Gailey
9-10-1986 Staffordshire and Worcester 13 ½ 11 88'11" Great Haywood
9-11-1986 Trent and Mersey 12 3/4 3 20' 4" Fradley Junction
9-12-1986 Coventry 2 0 0 ????
9-13-1986 Coventry 15 2 13' 8" Grendon
9-14-1986 Coventry 0 0 0 Atherstone
9-15-1986 Coventry 9 ½ 2 13' 8" ???
9-16-1986 Coventry 6 ½ 0 0 Whittington
9-17-1986 Trent and Mersey 6 3 20' 6" Fradley
9-18-1986 Trent and Mersey 0 0 0 Fradley
9-19-1986 Trent and Mersey 9 7 33' 8" Burton-on-Trent