Canal boat holiday areas
Choice of Routes
Here we give you a flavour of the most popular routes available but, with a few restraints, you are free to travel whichever direction you please from your chosen start base and can holiday for a weekend, a week or longer.
As a rough calculation when planning a route, add the number of locks to the distance in miles and divide the total by 3 to give cruising time in hours.
Droitwich Canal
Birmingham Canal Navigations
Birmingham Fazeley Canal
Grand Union Canal
Oxford Canal
River Avon
River Severn
Shropshire Union Canal
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
Stourbridge Canal
Stratford upon Avon Canal
Warwickshire Ring
Worcester Birmingham Canal
 Click here for Heart of England route information.
Birmingham Canal Navigations
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
Black Country Ring
Caldon Canal
Four Counties Ring
Macclesfield Canal
Middlewich Canal
Shropshire Union Canal
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
Stratford upon Avon Canal
Stourbridge Canal
Trent and Mersey Canal
Worcester Birmingham Canal
Click here for route information on canal boat holidays in the Potteries and Peak District.
Ashby Canal
Birmingham and Fazeley Canal
Coventry Canal
East Midlands Ring
Grand Union Canal
Grand Union Canal (Leicester Section)
Leicester Ring
Stratford upon Avon Canal
South Oxford Canal
North Oxford Canal
River Soar
River Trent
The Grand Ring
Trent and Mersey Canal
Warwickshire Ring
Click here for route information for the canals and rivers of the South Midlands.
Aire and Calder Navigations
Ashton Canal
Bridgewater Canal
Calder and Hebble Navigation
Cheshire Ring
Four Counties Ring
Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Leeds Liverpool Canal
Llangollen Canal
Macclesfield Canal
Middlewich Canal
Peak Forest Canal
River Weaver
Rochdale Canal
Shropshire Union Canal
South pennine Ring
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
Trent and Mersey Canal
Click here for route information on boating holidays on the canals of the North East of England.
Ashton Canal
Bridgewater Canal
Cheshire Ring
Four Counties Ring
Llangollen Canal
Macclesfield Canal
Middlewich Canal
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
Shropshire Union Canal
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
Trent and Mersey Canal
Click here for route information on canal holidays in Wales and the Marches.
Grand Union Canal
Kennet and Avon Canal
River Avon
River Thames
South Oxford Canal
Click here for route information on the waterways of Wessex and the South West of England.
Forth and Clyde Canal
Union Canal
Click here for route information about the canals of Scotland.
Please note:
Suggested routes and timings are approximate and will be affected by available cruising hours, weather conditions and amount of traffic on the waterway. More detailed advice will be given when the boat is collected. When planning any river cruising within your route, do bear in mind that in some weather conditions river navigation may be restricted, so it is worth having an alternative plan. |
