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Our canal boat holiday locations are:

Alvechurch in Worcestershire

Anderton in Cheshire

Ellesmere in Shropshire

Blisworth Arm in Northamptonshire

Trowbridge in Wiltshire

Market Harborough in Leicestershire

Worcester in Worcestershire

 
Cruising the canals of the UK

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Canal boat holidays.

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Worcester and Birmingham Canal

Tourist map of the Worcester and Birmingham Canal connecting the centre of Birmingham to the River Severn at Worcester. Includes the Droitwich Barge and Droitwich Junction Canals, currently under restoration. The canal corridor is covered at 1:60,000 showing facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trip operators.

Detailed plans of Birmingham, Alvechurch, Worcester and Droitwich Spa at 1:15,000 showing streets, shopping areas, waterway facilities and places of interest.

Introduction to the history of the waterway and a diagrammatic section along the waterway.

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Grand Union Canal

Birmingham to Fenny Stratford


SIDE ONE
Canal coverage from the centre of Birmingham where the Grand Union Canal joins the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Canal Navigations to Braunston and the junction with the North Oxford Canal. Detailed plans of Birmingham, Warwick and Royal Leamington Spa at 1:15,000 showing streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest. and an introduction to the origins and history of the Grand Union Canal.


SIDE TWO
Canal coverage from Braunston to Fenny Stratford (Milton Keynes) including the Northampton Arm and its junction with the River Nene Navigation, the un navigable branch arm to Buckingham and the beginning of the Grand Union Canal Leicester Line at Norton Junction.
Detailed plans of Braunston, Northampton, Stoke Bruerne and Great Linford. Diagrammatic section along the canal from Birmingham to Fenny Stratford.

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Birmingham Canal Navigations (Inland Waterways of Britain)

Tourist map and detailed street plan at 1:30,000 with continuous coverage of the whole of the Birmingham Canal Navigations network in an area encompassing Wolverhampton, Dudley, Birmingham and Walsall and showing junctions with adjoining navigations.

The map features named streets and built-up areas as well as highlighting canal facilities and places to visit. Facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trip operators.

Illustrated guide to the canal features of interest, descriptive introduction to the history of the BCN and a large scale inset map of the busy Central Birmingham waterways area.

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Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal with the River Severn and the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal (Inland Waterways of Britain)

Tourist map featuring the waterway corridors at 1:60,000 showing facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trip operators. Illustrated guide to the waterways features of interest. Historical profiles of the waterways.

SIDE ONE
Canal coverage from Great Haywood Junction to Stourport Basin.

Detailed plans of Penkridge and Kidderminster at 1:15,000 showing streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest. Diagrammatic section along the waterways.

SIDE TWO
Coverage of the navigable River Severn from Stourport to Gloucester and the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal from Gloucester Docks to Sharpness Docks.

Detailed plans of Stourport, Worcester, Upton and Gloucester at 1:15,000 showing streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest.

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Kennet and Avon Canal (Inland Waterways of Britain)

Tourist map of the Kennet and Avon Canal featuring the canal corridor at 1:53,750 showing facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trip operators. Illustrated guide to the canal features of interest.

SIDE ONE
Canal coverage from Avonmouth to Pewsey. Detailed plans, at 1:12,000, of Bristol, Bath, Bradford-on-Avon and Devizes showing streets, shopping areas, waterway facilities and places of interest.

SIDE TWO
Canal coverage from Pewsey to Reading. Detailed plans of Hungerford, Newbury and Reading at 1:12,500. Diagrammatic section along the canal and introduction to the canal's history, restoration and wildlife.

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Trent and Mersey Canal: v.2: Vol 2 (Inland Waterways Maps)

Great Haywood Junction to Cromwell Lock. Tourist map featuring the canal corridor at 1:60,000 showing facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and boat trips operators. Illustrated guide to the canal features of interest with historical profiles.

SIDE ONE:
Canal coverage from Great Haywood Junction to Derwentmouth.

Detailed plan of Burton upon Trent at 1:15,000 showing streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest.

SIDE TWO:
Coverage of the non-tidal River Trent from Derwentmouth to Cromwell Lock and including the Nottingham Canal and the Newark Branch. Detailed plans of Nottingham and Newark-on-Trent at 1:15,000 showing streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest. Diagrammatic section along the waterway.

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