🛶 More Than Words – Episode 32: Staff and Nonsense 🛶
From Cheshire hamlets with population‑of‑a‑pub‑quiz energy to canals that hold 200‑year grudges, Episode 32 is where the walk leaves leafy respectability behind and dives head‑first into industrial heritage, cosmic eavesdropping, escaped Tudor bears, and Stoke‑on‑Trent’s six‑town identity crisis. It’s England at its most gloriously peculiar.
Featuring: 


✈️ Manchester Airport Mile: fitness, but with the ambience of a long‑haul layover and the glamour of a short‑stay car park
👑 King of Tonga at Yeoman Hey: the royal visit Greater Manchester didn’t expect and still can’t explain
📡 A 25‑metre radio telescope casually parked in a field like it wandered off from Jodrell Bank
🪵 Beating the Bounds: medieval admin that involved walking in circles and hitting things with sticks


🚪 The Wardle Canal: Britain’s shortest canal, built purely out of spite and paperwork


💦 A waterway breach that left narrowboats looking like confused herons


🔥 Nantwich’s Great Fire: 150 buildings lost, four bears escaped, Tudor chaos achieved
🏡 Shavington: where every field is either a housing estate or a planning application in waiting


🏭 Stoke‑on‑Trent: six towns in a trench coat



It’s travel with cosmic telescopes, petty waterways, escaped bears, industrial swagger, and a city that built the world’s tableware and now sells the nostalgia back to you with pride.