Staffs Way: Penkridge to Rugeley part 1

Starting the next section of the Staffs Way, I had company - my husband Andy.

Leaving Penkridge, we followed the Staffs and Worcs Canal, which soon ran alongside the noisy M6. 

Autumn leaves 

We left after this lock. Some more hirers getting ready for a boating weekend 

I liked the look of this ancient tree. It was part of the Teddesley Park estate. The long grass in the foreground acts as a cover crop for the pheasant shoot

More of the estate's vast fields.

Eventually we hit this lane leading to Bednall...

...which had a really traditional village school with a school house attached

The school was founded in the same year - 1856- as my old school, Jesson's C.E. in Dudley.

More tomorrow.