i often ride along the canal between Ossy (behind the Hare and Hounds) and Blackburn, thats a really nice stretch of canal, very peaceful when you are on your own and very clean, it takes you through Rishton and then back on to Blackburn where i come off, if any stretch of the canal is done i think it should be that, no dead swans at all
i recall seeing a swan on it's nest last year just further down than Tottleworth Bridge, was that the one that got destroyed Mossy?