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This marks the southern extremity of the village: the parish boundary, and that between Cheshire and Shropshire, runs along the far edge of the wood to the left and crosses the canal through the overflow weir on the right bank.
The towpath is now in fine condition, but when I moved to Audlem as a child in 1969 simply getting to this point from lock 1 involved a struggle, climbing up the cutting side to avoid stretches of towpath that had eroded into the canal. Beyond here to Adderley the towpath was occasionally eroded and almost entirely covered in nettles. In hindsight, the 1960s probably were part of the canal's lowest point, between the end of freight transport and the explosion in leisure use. In those days this stretch of the canal was quiet enough to see kingfishers regularly; now the cutting between this point and lock 1 regularly houses overnight moorings.