Canal Boating Holidays
Suggested Cruises From Stoke-on-Trent
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Canal Barge Holidays Stoke-on-Trent
Suggested Cruising Routes From Stoke-on-Trent
Caldon Canal and Leek Branch - 1 Week Cruise
43 Miles, 34 Locks - An easy week up and back on one of
the most beautiful and quietest canals of them all.
Four Counties & Cheshire Rings - Both
at least 2 Week Cruises
A “Ring” is often a more attractive proposition for boaters than
the route that brings you back along the same waterway. However, to fully enjoy
this cruising experience, please consider allowing yourself more time.
Macclesfield Canal - 1 Week Cruise
28 Miles, 13 Locks each way - An easy week travelling into the Peak District
along The Macclesfield canal, runs from Stoke-on-Trent through the Harecastle
Tunnel to Kidsgrove and then up to Marple where it joins onto the Peak Forest
Canal.
Peak Forest Canal -
1 Week Cruise
Those wishing to venture a bit further before returning down “the Macc” may
wish to cruise the short but fascinating upper Peak Forest Canal.
The Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal -
1 Week Cruise
It was the Chester Canal Company’s ambition,
realised by that man again, Thomas Telford, that enabled the Middlewich Branch
to be opened in 1833 and finally provide the missing link of the Four Counties
Ring that we all love to cruise today.
The Staffordshire & Worcester Canal - 2 Week Cruise
One of James Brindley’s
famous “contour
canals”, from Great Haywood to the River Severn at Stourport, the simplest
principal at the time this canal was built following the contours of the
land to avoid the costly and often dangerous building of aqueducts and tunnels.
Trent & Mersey Canal - 2 Week Cruise
So called because it will ultimately take you to the River
Trent in the south and the River Mersey in the north, was the most ambitious
of all canal pioneer James Brindley’s plans.
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