More in Kinver and some locks.

Last night in Kinver, we'd walked up to the Austin Rock cave houses and as it was quite late they were closed, but the sign said they'd reopen at 10am, so we walked back up the steep hill this morning. En-route we discovered St. Peter's Church and were welcomed inside.

We were shown some attractive modern glass:
as well as the spectacular older windows:
and a beautiful modern extension, replacing a delapidated Victorian section:
The stained glass from the Victorian section though, had been saved and built into this lovely lantern hanging near the impressive organ pipes.
Moving on we discovered Kinver Edge Farm Shop (should be www.kinveredgefarmshop.co.uk but it's not working) and had a refreshing coffee. They did have a rather fun poster though:

We couldn't try their Maize Maze as it wasn't ready yet (neither is the website www.kinvermaizemaze.co.uk) so we walked on towards Kinver Edge and the Austin Rock cave houses.

Kinver Edge was rewarding with great views of the village of Kinver and its surroundings:

And the cave houses looked fascinating (see Nat. Trust website), but sadly it seemed we'd been misled and the opening times of the actual houses were only 2 - 4 pm and not on Mondays.

Around the back of the rock outcrop was a lovely little back door set into the rock. The whole thing struck me as being distinctly Hobbit-like.

Moving on up the canal, we passed through Hyde Lock and took particular pleasure in the front garden gates of the adjacent Lock Cottage, built as miniature versions of the lock just as few feet away:

Here they are in close-up:

The next lock up the canal, with the lovely name, Stewpony Lock, had another of the interesting circular bywash weirs, so worth a photo I thought:

Barbara had remembered passing what she described as a door in the rock by the canal on our way down, but we passed it too quickly for a photo. This time I spotted it in time to slow down and get a photo. It's a little blurred as it was so dim that it required a rather long exposure, but interesting, nonetheless:

We wonder what's inside???