Editing Trent and Mersey Canal (section)

===Southern Trent and Mersey===
After the [[Harecastle Tunnel]] (one way, alternating roughly every two hours), the canal emerges in the outskirts of [[Stoke-on-Trent]], and is soon in the middle of the city and then at [[Etruria, Staffordshire|Etruria]], and the junction with the [[Caldon Canal]].

Leaving Etruria, the canal is soon back in open country. It is now in the upper valley of the [[River Trent]], which the canal follows until the river becomes navigable and the canal is no longer needed. The next sizeable place is the market town of [[Stone, Staffordshire|Stone]].

After more countryside, the canal reaches [[Great Haywood Junction]] and the towpath bridge across the junction with the [[Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal]], which heads south to skirt [[Wolverhampton]] and join with the [[River Severn]] at [[Stourport-on-Severn]], thus connecting the Mersey with the Severn.

The next event is a right-angle bend, of no apparent significance from the boat, but this is where the canal (and the Trent itself) changes its basic direction from south-east to north-east (heading towards Nottingham).

Very near is [[Fradley Junction]] (with the [[Coventry Canal|Coventry Canal's "detached portion"]]).  The Coventry soon leads to the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and branches off to [[Birmingham]] or (via another stretch of the Coventry Canal) to [[Coventry]] and a junction with the [[Oxford Canal]] and thence to the Thames and the 'Southern Half' of the English canals.

The canal now heads directly to its terminus, passing through [[Burton upon Trent]], Mercia Marina at [[Findern]], the largest inland waterway [[marina]] in the United Kingdom, and then through wide locks (the first being at [[Stenson, Derbyshire|Stenson]]) to [[Shardlow]] and finally [[Derwent Mouth]].

It is not far from Derwent Mouth, via the River Trent, to [[Trentlock]], the four-way junction with the [[Erewash Canal]] (dead end at Great Northern Basin, formerly a link with the [[Cromford Canal]]), Cranfleet Cut (bypassing [[Thrumpton]] Weir to continue navigation towards [[Nottingham]]) and the [[River Soar]] Navigation (linking via [[Leicester]] to the [[Grand Union Canal]]). Beyond the Cranfleet Cut the Trent is navigable all the way to its mouth at [[Trent Falls]] on the [[Humber Estuary]].