Base – Froghall (Caldon Canal) – Base: 6 days return at 8hrs per day – 95 miles & 74 locks
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Nature reserve at Colwich Brickworks. |
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Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen. |
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Staffordshire’s oldest licensed pub at Salt - The Hollybush Inn. |
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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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Hazlehurst Aqueduct one of the few remaining canal over canal aqueducts. |
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The 143 acre Deep Hayes Country Park. |
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Cheddleton Flint Mill Museum that supplied the Potteries during the 18th & 19th Centuries. |
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The picturesque Churnet Valley together with the adjacent Steam Railway. |
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Fradley Junction with pretty canalside properties, nature walk & Swan Inn pub. |
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Picturesque Hopwas Woods alongside the Coventry Canal. |
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Short detour to Drayton Manor Theme Park. |
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The historic Tamworth Castle dating back to the 1100’s. |
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Tamworth Snowdome for the adventurous. |
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The famous Hatting town of Atherstone and its flight of 11 locks. |
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Bosworth Battlefield famous for the 1485 battle in which Henry Tudor defeated & killed King Richard III. |
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The nearby Battlefield Line Steam Railway. |
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Nature reserves at Colwich Brickworks & Loynton Moss. |
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Great Haywood home to Shugborough Hall and weekend retreat of Lord Lichfield famous photographer & Cousin to the Queen. |
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Cannock Chase Country Park listed
as an Area of Outstanding Natural and has many Sites of Special Scientific Interest. |
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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. |
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Rural scenery of the Shropshire Union Canal. |
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