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Tarporley Road, WHITCHURCH, SY13 4HF

A privately operated public house now trades from the former lock keeper's premises. Generally recommended, but look carefully at the website (and around) for details of the strictly adhered to hours!! Don't dare put your car in their car park and go for a walk (unless you have asked first and booked your meal). Any perceived unwarranted criticism left online will be responded to with a sharp and detailed riposte, which does the management no favours even if understandable. Well kept ale ... the place is infested with teapots! ;-) Whatever it says on their website, there IS public footpath access to cross the lock and to the towpath from fields on both sides of the canal.

The small white building is a Grade II listed canal stables of about 1800 with roof replaced by corrugated asbestos.

The lock is on the Llangollen Canal and the pub is one of the most convenient gongoozling venues around! The lock raises (or lowers) the water by six feet (about 1.8 metres). The image has been scanned from a Fujifilm negative dating from August 1998.

The small white building is a Grade II listed canal stables of about 1800 with roof replaced by corrugated asbestos.

On the Llangollen Canal.

This is one of a handful of locations around the canal network where there is a pub immediately adjacent to a lock and where the lockside is effectively the pub garden. The Willeymoor Lock Tavern, once the lock keeper's cottage, is a popular stop for boaters on the busy Llangollen Canal.

Unfortunately for such a busy canal, the Llangollen does not have many true canalside pubs. This one, however, occupying the lock cottage, could hardly be closer. Unfortunately, it was closed in this Sunday afternoon view.

This lock allows a six foot rise (about 1·8 metres) on the route to Whitchurch, Ellesmere and Llangollen. A privately operated public house now trades from the former lock keeper's premises. Often recommended, but look carefully at the website (and around) for details of the strictly adhered to hours!! Don't dare put your car in their car park and go for a walk (unless you have asked first and booked your meal). Any perceived unwarranted criticism left online will be responded to with a sharp and detailed riposte. Whatever it says on their website, there IS public footpath access to cross the lock and to the towpath from fields on both sides of the canal. The Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal starts by the River Dee at Llantysilio and leads to the main line at Hurleston Junction, a distance of 46 miles, with twenty-one locks. Water is supplied from the River Dee to the canal, and on to Hurleston Reservoir, a source of domestic water supplies.

Formerly a Lock Keepers cottage converted into a small licensed restaurant in the 60's and transformed into a pub in 1978 by the current (2021) owners, the Gilkes family. The small white building is a Grade II listed canal stables of about 1800 with roof replaced by corrugated asbestos. 2 miles north of Whitchurch, Shropshire, the pub is actually located in Cheshire.