Cruises

Training Cruise – crew only

Travel down the intimate Stratford Canal to the heart of Shakespeare country. 68 miles and 77 locks Coventry Basin, Coventry Canal, Hawkesbury Junction, Atherstone Locks, Birmingham and Fazeley canal, the Grand Union, Kingswood Junction, Wilmcote, Forest of Arden, Stratford Canal, Stratford upon Avon.

From Shakespeare’s birthplace to the centre of the industrial revolution. 48 miles and 70 locks Stratford upon Avon and Shakespeare country, Wilmcote, the Forest of Arden, Stratford Canal, Kingswood Junction, Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Farmers Bridge locks, BCN mainline, the Black Country Museum.

Explore the industrial heart of the English canal system on this tour of the BCN. 42 miles and 52 locks The Birmingham main line, Wyrley and Essington Canal, Daw End Branch, Rushall Canal, Tame Valley Canal and the Birmingham and Fazely.

From the heart of Birmingham to Elizabethan Nantwich through the beautiful Shropshire countryside. 55 miles and 53 locks Gas Street Basin, Old Main Line, Wolverhampton Flight, Shropshire Union Canal, Woodeaves Cutting, Tyrley Locks, Audlem flight, Nantwich.

Dramatic engineering and peaceful countryside on this journey from England to Wales. 46 mile and 21 locks Hurleston Locks, Wrenbury, Grindley Brook Staircase, Ellesmere, Chirk Tunnel and Aqueduct, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Llangollen.

Dramatic engineering and peaceful countryside on this journey from Wales to England. 61 miles and 31 locks The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Chirk Tunnel & Aqueduct, Frankton Locks, The peaceful Montgomery, Grindley Brook Staircase Locks, Wrenbury, Hurleston Locks.

From the Cheshire plains to the Peak District on five unique canals. 59 miles and 48 locks. The Shropshire Union Canal, the Middlewich Branch, Cheshire Paired locks, Hardings Wood Junction, Macclesfield Canal, Bosley Locks, Marple Junction, Peak Forest canal, Bugsworth Basin.

Peaks, valleys and industrial heritage on this four canal cruise. 65 miles and 37 locks. Bugsworth Basin, Peak Forest Canal, Marple Junction, Bosley Locks, Macclesfield Canal, Hardings Wood Junction, Caldon Canal, Churnet Valley Steam Railway (if available), Leek Branch.

Lively canal junctions, rural seclusion and plenty of good old English pubs! 70 miles and 31 locks Etruria, Meaford Flight, Stone, Great Haywood Junction, Trent and Mersey Canal, Fradley Junction, Atherstone Locks, Hawkesbury Junction, Coventry Canal, Coventry Arm.

Contrast the twisty North Oxford with the straight and wide Grand Union. 47 miles and 29 locks Coventry Arm, Coventry Canal, Hawkesbury Junction, North Oxford Canal, Hillmorton paired Locks, Braunston Turn, Grand Union Canal, Stockton Locks, Bascote Locks, Cape Locks.

Lots of interest and variation, with wide, narrow and paired locks; industrial Birmingham contrasted with beautiful Warwickshire countryside. 100 miles and 83 locks Saltisford Arm, Stockton Flight, Braunston, Hill Morton Locks, Newbold Tunnel, Atherstone Locks, Knowle, Hatton locks

Walking and lock wheeling on the M40 of the canal system. 77 miles and 70 locks Bascote staircase, Stockton flight, Napton Junction, Braunston Tunnel, Blisworth tunnel, National Waterways Museum, Ouzel Valley, the Chilterns, Marsworth junction, summit at Tring.

Explore England’s capital city from the water and appreciate its architecture and heritage from a whole new, peaceful, angle.  62 miles and 62 locks Tring Cutting, Grand Union, Limehouse Basin, Islington & Maida Hill Tunnels, Regents Park, The Olympic Park, Little Venice,.

Travel the National Trust’s River Wey, then on to the Thames for a trip through the Berkshire countryside. 72 miles and 41 locks The River Wey, one of the earliest navigations in Britain, Dapdune Wharf, Guilford, Windsor, Henley, Reading.

All the way from the Kennet to the Avon! 78 miles and 99 locks The River Kennet, Newbury, Hungerford, Crofton Flight, Devizes, Caen Hill Flight, Bradford-on-Avon, Avoncliffe and Dundas Aqueducts, Avon Valley, Bath.

Two beautiful cities to explore and the best of the Kennet and Avon Canal. 60 miles and 36 locks Bath, Avon Valley, Avoncliffe and Dundas Aqueducts, Bradford-on-Avon, Caen Hill Flight, Devizes, The River Avon and Bristol.

All the way from the Avon to the Kennet! 73 miles and 85 locks Bristol, the River Avon, Avoncliffe and Dundas Aqueducts, Bath, Bradford-on-Avon, Caen Hill Flight, Devizes, Crofton Flight, Hungerford, Newbury, The River Kennet.

The best of the lower Thames! 58 miles and 35 locks Newbury, the River Kennet, Reading, The Thames, Wallingford, Abingdon, Oxfords’s Spires.

A lovely rural cruise with intermittent locks. An excellent introduction to canal boating! 33 miles and 19 locks The spires of Oxford, The Upper Thames, Dukes Cut, South Oxford Canal, Thrupp, The Cherwell River, Somerton Deep Lock.