Cruising into 2022 on the Ashby Canal

It’s 1st January 2022 and it’s time to move on from Stoke Golding. We have spent Christmas with our daughter and had an amazing time with her and our family.

We went for a lovely Indian meal on New Years Eve with our friends Bob and Rosemary and then sat with the pups and watched Jools Holland to see in the new year.

1st January 2022

Today we left our mooring at the lovely Stoke Golding and moved on to Shenton. It was quite chilly today and we had a short spell of rain but it was a lovely cruise through beautiful countryside and over the very small Shenton Aqueduct. We also cruised past Sutton Cheney Wharf where there is a cafe and services and lots of people enjoying their New Years Day.

It’s also Tilly and Winston’s 4th birthday!

Our new mooring spot is lovely - nice and remote - but very muddy towpath!

Bosworth Battlefield

It’s only a 15-20 minute walk to Bosworth Battlefield from our mooring so off we went. We walked There is a Visitor Centre there too but it was closed. Shenton Railway Station is the southern terminus of the Battlefield Line. This is a preserved section of the Ashby & Nuneaton Joint Railway, which was closed to passengers in 1931, although it still carried goods until 1970.
It’s great to see the steam train puffing along the route to Shackerstone and to hear the whistle blowing.

Bosworth Battlefield is where Richard III, the last of the Plantagenets, was killed by Henry Tudor who then became Henry VII, the first Tudor king. Richard III was the last English monarch to die in combat. This battle was the final battle of the War of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York that extended across England in the latter half of the 15th century.