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Our Canal Boating Holiday Routes
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1. Circular Routes
2. Return Routes
3. Short Break Routes
CIRCULAR ROUTES (click on the highlighted attractions for a link to the website)
Black Country Ring: 1 week at 7hrs per day – 86 miles & 79 locks.
Fradley Junction with pretty canalside properties, nature walk & Swan Inn pub.
Picturesque Hopwas Woods alongside the Coventry Canal.
Drayton Manor Theme Park.
Birmingham City Centre with superb shopping, National Sea Life Centre, National Indoor Arena, Symphony Hall and Cadbury World.
Tranquil countryside along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal.
Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen.
Nature reserve at Colwich Brickworks
 

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Four Counties Ring: 10 days at 7hrs per day or 2 wks at 5hrs per day–137 miles & 98 locks.
Nature reserves at Colwich Brickworks & Loynton Moss
Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen.
Stoke on Trent heart of the Potteries. Home to the Wedgewood China and Spode factories, Waterworld indoor pool complex and Trentham Gardens.
Harecastle Tunnel with its famous copper coloured waters denoting the presence of leached minerals.
The busy locks and junctions at Middlewich.
Rural scenery of the Shropshire Union Canal.
 

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Leicester Ring: 2 weeks at 6hrs per day –160miles &107 locks. (Experienced Hirers Only)
Fradley Junction with pretty canalside properties, nature walk & Swan Inn pub.
Burton on Trent famous Brewery town and home to Coors Visitor Centre.
The historic village of Shardlow with the famous Clock Warehouse & Shardlow Heritage Centre.
Vibrant City of Leicester with great shopping and National Space Centre
The famous Foxton Locks Staircase.
Rolling countryside surrounding the Oxford Canal.
Coventry Cathedral & ruins of Cathedral Church of St Michael.
 

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RETURN ROUTES (click on the highlighted attractions for a link to the website)
Base – Llangollen Canal – Base: 14 days return at 8hrs per day –233 miles & 128 locks.
Nature reserves at Colwich Brickworks & Loynton Moss
Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen.
Cannock Chase Country Park listed as an Area of Outstanding Natural and has many Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
The County town of Stafford home to the Ancient High House tallest timber frame town house in England built in 1595. Nearby Stafford Castle dating back 900 years.
For the adventurous Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker on the rural Shropshire Union Canal.
The stunning scenery of the Llangollen canal with the famous Grade 1 listed Pontcysyllte Aqueduct stretching over 120ft above and 1000ft across the River Dee valley.
 

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Base – Froghall (Caldon Canal) – Base: 6 days return at 8hrs per day – 95 miles & 74 locks
Nature reserve at Colwich Brickworks.
Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen.
Staffordshire’s oldest licensed pub at Salt - The Hollybush Inn.
Stoke on Trent heart of the Potteries. Home to the Wedgwood China and Spode factories, Waterworld indoor pool complex and Etruria Industrial Museum.
Hazlehurst Aqueduct one of the few remaining canal over canal aqueducts.
The 143 acre Deep Hayes Country Park.
Cheddleton Flint Mill Museum that supplied the Potteries during the 18th & 19th Centuries.
The picturesque Churnet Valley together with the adjacent Steam Railway.
 

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Base – Snarestone (Ashby Canal) – Base: 6 days return at 8hrs per day – 108 miles & 32 locks.
Fradley Junction with pretty canalside properties, nature walk & Swan Inn pub.
Picturesque Hopwas Woods alongside the Coventry Canal.
Short detour to Drayton Manor Theme Park.
The historic Tamworth Castle dating back to the 1100’s.
Tamworth Snowdome for the adventurous.
The famous Hatting town of Atherstone and its flight of 11 locks.
Bosworth Battlefield famous for the 1485 battle in which Henry Tudor defeated & killed King Richard III.
The nearby Battlefield Line Steam Railway.
 

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Base –Norbury Junction – Base: 6 days return at 8hrs per day – 102 miles & 32 locks.
Nature reserves at Colwich Brickworks & Loynton Moss.
Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen.
Cannock Chase Country Park listed as an Area of Outstanding Natural and has many Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
The County town of Stafford home to the Ancient High House tallest timber frame town house in England built in 1595. Nearby Stafford Castle dating back 900 years.
Rural scenery of the Shropshire Union Canal.
 

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SHORT BREAK ROUTES (click the highlighted attractions for a website link)
Base - Stoke on Trent – Base: 3˝ days return at 8hrs per day – 55 miles & 30 locks.
Nature reserve at Colwich Brickworks.
Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen.
Staffordshire’s oldest licensed pub at Salt - The Hollybush Inn.
Attractive town of Stone.
Stoke on Trent heart of the Potteries. Home to the Wedgwood China and Spode factories, Waterworld indoor pool complex and Etruria Industrial Museum.
 

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Base - Atherstone – Base: 3˝ days return at 8hrs per day – 46 miles & 30 locks.
Fradley Junction with pretty canalside properties, nature walk & Swan Inn pub.
Picturesque Hopwas Woods alongside the Coventry Canal.
Short detour to Drayton Manor Theme Park.
The historic Tamworth Castle dating back to the 1100’s.
Tamworth Snowdome for the adventurous
The famous Hatting town of Atherstone and it’s flight of 11 locks.
Merevale Park with the remains of the 12th-C abbey and pretty 13th-C Church.
 

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Base - Stafford – Base: 2˝ days return at 8hrs per day – 41 miles & 14 locks.
Nature reserve at Colwich Brickworks.
Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen.
Cannock Chase Country Park listed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has many Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
The County town of Stafford home to the Ancient High House tallest timber frame town house in England built in 1595. Nearby Stafford Castle dating back 900 years.
The large wooded estate of Teddesley Park.
 

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