We stayed at the top of the Marple Flight for 3 days. Leaving on Monday 17th Sept we wanted to head down the rest of the Peak Forest Canal, known as the Upper Peak Forest Canal. Towards the end of the canal which is only about 6 miles away it spilt's into two arms. One leads to Whaley Bridge and the other goes to Bugsworth Basin. We had been told it's quite a shallow canal and to stick to the middle, hopefully we wouldn't come across to many boats travelling in the opposite direction. It turned out not to be as shallow as I imagined, maybe I was just thinking back to the Llangollen Canal. As we reached the end we first went to Whaley Bridge for one night and then onto Bugsworth Basin for another night.

Whaley Bridge is a quaint village built on a steep hill at the end of the Upper Peak Forest Canal with lovely views across the Goyt Valley. 

Bugsworth Basin was built to bring the canal as near as possible to the limestone quarries at Doveholes, 6 miles away. A tramway was built to transport the limestone from the quarries into waiting canal boats. The tramway closed in 1926 and the basin became disused and overgrown, but now it's fully restored and opened to navigation. It really shouldn't be missed!