Grand Union Canal Boat Hire

Cruising the grand union canal. from braunston in the north the wide grand union canal passes through weedon village, noted for its antique shops, and on to gayton junction. this very rural route has two tunnels including blisworth tunnel (3056 yards, the longest in england) en route to the canal village of stoke bruerne and its waterways museum.. Grand union canal boat hire in leicestershire boutique narrowboats offers the most romantic canal boat hire possible, through the stunning leicestershire and northamptonshire waterways. even if you are already be familiar with the leicester section of the grand union canal, you will certainly never get tired of it.. Click to search all our canal boat holidays or for all our discounted boat hire availability. tags: canal boat holidays, grand union canal, narrowboat hire uk. this entry was posted on april 11, 2013 at 3:20 pm. you can follow any responses to this entry through the rss 2.0 feed. you can skip to the end and leave a response..

Canal boat trip vessel on grand union canal at stoke

A narrow boat in an empty canal lock on the grand union

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The aylesbury arm swings off to the west, but the main grand union canal now turns north east past pitstone wharf and was the base of a canal boat hire company (grebe canal cruisers, now closed). above: the top lock of the marsworth. The grand union canal north from london eventually reaches norton junction, where the main line of the canal continues west, through braunston tunnel to wigrams turn and on towards birmingham (see section on the grand union canal to birmingham).. The warwick & napton canal was not surveyed until 1793 and opened throughout 1800 as a narrow canal.. it was absorbed into the grand union canal in 1929 putting almost all of the key route from london to birmingham under the control of one company for the first time..

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