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The Four Counties Ring – Map Updates

This year (2025) we are planning on completing ‘The Four Counties Ring’ so one of my tasks has been to update our interactive map. We are starting from our Marina mooring at Droitwich Spa Marina then up to Wolverhampton, as we did when completing the Stourport Ring in 2022, from there we can turn North on to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and then onto the Shropshire Union Canal to start the ring.

We expect this to take just over a month, we are not in a rush and need to be visiting some of the interesting places along the way.. maybe the Secret Nuclear Bunker if we can find it.

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The Summer Adventure 2022 Part 6 – Stourport-On-Severn and back to Droitwich Spa Marina

29th – 31st The end of the Stourport Ring

It is odd, apart from some pictures of the Lock 9, Lincomb Lock, We took almost no other picture on this leg of the trip down the Severn and into Worcester and onto the Birmingham and Worcester Canal, it may have been because we have done this bit so many times.

Lincomb lock gates
Lincomb Lock exit

We moored up in Worcester over night and tried to go for breakfast at House of Coffee but due to unforeseen circumstances it was close, so we tried Cafe Rouge, not as interesting, but it did the job. After that we set off up the Birmingham and Worcester Canal.

Nearing the end of that day we did have a little adventure around lock 13 on the canal were a fallen tree had blocked most of the canal, we tried to pass it right to the righthand side and got stuck on the bottom in a sallow area, much heaving with the pole and a few engine revs and we got free.

We then moor up by the the Tibberton Road Bridge, Bridge 25, and had a meal at the “The Bridge” Pub with some other boaters we had been following up the canal.

FEB 2023 Edit – The Bridge Inn at Tibberton has closed, Admiral Taverns are looking for new tenants

Later we sat of the roof of the boat and watched the stars, it is amazing what a few beers will do.

The next day we did the final chug to Droitwich Spa Marina, completing our navigation of the Stourport Ring.

Approx 84 miles and 118 locks if you discount the detour back to Droitwich for repairs, we orders a brass plaque from The Canal Shop to celebrate and other grand holiday on Floydtilla.

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