Stone

12 - 14 August

After our few days on the Caldon Canal, we rejoined the Trent and Mersey canal at Etruria Junction and made our way down to Stone, first passing through Stoke on Trent Locks. The canal soon turns rural from Barleston onwards.  

Stone Town Centre moorings

There are lots of moorings in Stone, some as you enter before the Stone locks which are very handy for the train station, the town centre moorings just above lock 28 (if you are lucky as these are busy) and then some just after the water point outside Marks and Spencers Food Hall and Café.  All are handy to walk into the town, which has plenty of restaurant's, shops, banks and pubs and charity shops.

The Poste of Stone 

There is also a large park are for dog walking etc on the towpath side of the moorings.  We enjoyed our stay in Stone and had a yummy  'full English' breakfast at the Wetherspoons pub, 'The Poste of Stone'  which used to be the Main Post office building.