The Way of the Cuckoo

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  Step 1: Begin your walk at the Station Road car park in Brimington. It's just next to The Mill pub. You'll join the towpath just by a lock.

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  Step 2: Start to follow the waterway along the path. This canal is 220 years old and stretches 46 miles all the way to the River Trent.

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  Step 3: But don’t worry, you’ll only cover about 6km today, surrounded by nature, canal boats and maybe a few people fishing 🐟🦋🐝🦆🐸🌿🎣🚣

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  Step 4: The canal was built to export coal, limestone, iron & lead from Derbyshire. The stone for the Palace of Westminster once sailed by this spot

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  Step 5: You made it to Dixons Lock. Someone once accidentally pulled the plug & drained part of the canal. Wooops! 🙈

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