We waked on to Trentham, a small town, where we had a shandy before taking on the final stretch to Stone.
As it was now after lunch and the canal was heading south we got reasonable shade from the sun even though the hedges a times were not very large. There were lots of moored boats, some we had seen days previously who said hello.
The railways, which brought about the decline in industrial use of the canals, ironically ran beside the eastern bank of the canal for a few miles.
The canal descended through a few locks on the way to stone where we caught up with more boats. The quality of housing improved markedly approaching Stone, an important boating area. One chap had his own private mooring complete with two narrow in the front garden.
After six and a half hours were arrived in stone, 22.8km from Burslem, our longest day so far. Even so because of the shade it wasn't as tiring.
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