Saturday, 30 July 2011

To Outwell for a wedding

We drove to Outwell today for the wedding of our friends Sally and Stuart. Is there a church closer to a navigable waterway than St. Clement's? The church is inside a kink in the waterway.


The bride could have been transported to the church by boat, especially as their house is on the same waterway, which I believe is Well Creek. (or is it the River Nene?) But as the distance from house to church is only about 200 yards Sally chose to walk.


More walking: this time with husband Stuart down the nave. There was no reference to navigation in the service, sadly!


The paint on the village sign is peeling, but the picture is of interest to boaters. It depicts an aqueduct, which I take to be Mullicourt Aqueduct where Well Creek crosses the Middle Level Main Drain.


If I'd realised this before I got home, I'd have stopped to photograph the real thing.

2 comments:

Nb Yarwood said...

Well Creek it is Halfie!
Lesley

Halfie said...

Thanks Lesley - it joins the Nene, then.