Canals Page

Canal holidays

• June 2009: Black Country Ring via Stourbridge
• October 2008: Oxford and Grand Union Canals from Napton to Crick
• May/June 2008: Llangollen Canal from Chirk
• June 2007: the Four Counties ring from Stoke-on-Trent
• October 2006: long weekend from Great Haywood on Trent and Mersey Canal to Huddlesford Junction on the Coventry Canal
• June 2006: the Avon Ring from Stoke Wharf near Bromsgrove
• June 2005: a week doing the Warwickshire Ring from Gayton
• June 2004: a long weekend on the Grand Union Canal from Blisworth to Crick
• October 2003: a long weekend on the Wey & Godalming Navigations in Surrey
• June 2003: a long weekend on the Grand Union Canal from Leighton Buzzard to Aylesbury
• October 2002: a long weekend on the Oxford Canal, from Oxford to Upper Heyford
• October 2001: a week on the canals and rivers of Yorkshire
• April 2001: a holiday on the Shropshire Union Canal from Bunbury to Chester and back

Other canal photos

• August 2008: a visit to Foxton Locks and the site of the Foxton Inclined Plane Boat Lift
• February 2006: a walk around the Cosgrove Iron Trunk Aqueduct on the Grand Union Canal
• April 2005: a visit to the Chesterfield Canal just west of Worksop
• July 2004: a visit to the canal village of Stoke Bruerne
• April 2004: a visit to Caen Hill locks at Devizes
• October 2003: the entrance lock of the Bude Canal in Cornwall
• July 2003: a visit to Foxton Locks and the site of the Foxton Inclined Plane Boat Lift
• July 2002: a day trip on the Grand Union Canal with some bellringers
• June 2002: a visit to Edstone Aqueduct on the Stratford-on-Avon Canal
• June 2002: Crofton Pumping Station, one of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways, on the Kennet and Avon Canal
• March 2002: a walk on the Wendover Arm and Grand Union Canal near Marsworth and Tring
• February 2002: a day trip to Scotland, visiting Neptune's Staircase and the Falkirk Wheel

Other pages

• The Seven Wonders of the Waterways

Links

• British Waterways
• Waterscape
• Granny Buttons - log of the narrowboat Granny Buttons
• Narrowboat Per Angusta
• Waterway Routes - DVD & VHS of the canals and waterways of Britain (limited range at present)
• Videoactive - lots more DVD & VHS of canals - gradually being updated; the oldest are a bit out of date
• J M Pearson's Canal & Railway Books
• Waterways Holidays - Hire Boat Availability from major operators
• Narrowboat holiday hire firms
• Pennine Waterways
• Canalia Hand-Painted Canalware
• Canal Junction - canal guide and business directory
• CANALPLAN AC - Canal Route Planner

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