{"id":2070,"date":"2018-07-16T21:58:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2018-07-16T21:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:58:16","slug":"labouring-at-lapworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"Labouring at Lapworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we chugged along after leaving our mooring at 07:50 we realised what a good spot we had chosen for our overnight stop.\u00a0 <\/span>After bridge 15 the moorings became a lot more undesirable.\u00a0 <\/span>Around Lady Lane Wharf we found row upon row of terraced permies and this more or less continued through Warings Green.\u00a0 <\/span>There were a few spots with detached permies scattered here and there but it was not until we passed bridge 21 that we found other potential places that we would have chosen.<\/p>\n

We started down the Lapworth Flight at 10:07 and were moored up in prime position for the Boot Inn at 12:16 so we had taken approximately 14 minutes per lock on this flight.\u00a0 <\/span>We thought that this was pretty good given that several of the gates were far harder than any we met at Tardebigge.\u00a0 <\/span>The boat following us said he would rather tackle Tardebigge any day rather than Lapworth!<\/p>\n

After a snack lunch we walked back to bridge 31 and on to Packwood House.\u00a0 <\/span>We had a great afternoon there in an NT property that was really unusual having been remodelled to represent a Tudor House.<\/p>\n

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Packwood House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Topiary Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of the rooms showing a few of the many tapestries collected by Graham Baron Ash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On our walk we spotted a small plaque explaining the cotton reel (more like a bobbin) on the top of the bridge (bridge 32 lock 7).<\/p>\n

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Ah hah!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We also spotted a lovely water plant which we had seen in one or two of the earlier side ponds on the flight but had never seen anywhere else.\u00a0 <\/span>We later learned that this is Butomus Umbellatus, or Flowering Rush.<\/p>\n

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Flowering Rush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We returned to The Boot Inn for dinner which was excellent but we won\u2019t be able to afford any more food this holiday.<\/p>\n

As we walked back to Oliver there was a very short and not too heavy shower. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we chugged along after leaving our mooring at 07:50 we realised what a good spot we had chosen for our overnight stop.\u00a0 After bridge 15 the moorings became a lot more undesirable.\u00a0 Around Lady Lane Wharf we found row upon row of terraced permies and this more or less continued through Warings Green.\u00a0 There … Continue reading Labouring at Lapworth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avon-ring-2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8PLyH-xo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}