Andrew Smith wrote: > Microsoft's Live Map (http://maps.live.com/) seems quite good as well. I > have found that they seem to have better detailed coverage than Google Earth > though some of the pictures are rather out of date (e.g. Wigrams Turn Marina > is still a field) but if you are looking for a lost canal I don't suppose > that matters!
Its not lost, its just sleeping ;-) To pick up on earlier comments, after the JCB site the line of the canal heads round the back of the last lake then is marked by the line of trees which move ever closer to the main road as you approach Uttoxeter. just after the closest point, which is about 1/3 of the way back to the A50 you can park in a small side road and scramble through the undergrowth to the canal. Thereafter it's pretty simple to work out the line from ground level across fields all the way to Spath, where it becomes very visible from the road again. After the A50 crossing it is best traced from maps than from evidence on the ground. The terminus is clearly marked on OS maps as "The Wharf" Bear in mind that through much of this section you're looking for something that looks more like a railway bed than a canal. Steve NB Bream
