Banbury & Return
After a sporty encounter, this is a journey of trade and heritage, accompanied by the rhythms of poetry, music and nursery rhymes. Meandering along one of engineer James Brindley’s renowned contour-hugging canals, the peaceful countryside calls out with symbolic windmills, quirky huts and buildings which hold wartime memories.
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Market Harborough & Return
A relaxing cruise, as the canal winds through uncluttered countryside. This route offers the rare chance to revel in remote landscapes with the drama of an idyllic lock flight and the heritage of two of Britain's canals’ most loved marinas.
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Shardlow & Return
A route with tales of medieval times and reeds, special water used by monks to change a town’s fortunes and a vital inland port with links to pottery, the Industrial Revolution and ‘canal mania’. This journey is rural and even remote at times, yet trips in and out of bustling hubs that tell stories of canal-life to the passing traveller.
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Stoke Bruerne & Return
Your rural cruise leads from iron bridges to idyllic thatched cottages, from sport to shoes. On a journey which tells of world-renowned engineering and mathematics, you will discover more of the heritage of the canals and ironically of our modern world.
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The East Midlands / Leicester Ring
This is a varied route which takes in the Coventry Canal, parts of the Oxford Canal, Grand Union Canal Leicester Line, the River Soar, a short section of the River Trent and part of the Trent & Mersey Canal.
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The Warwickshire Ring
This route takes in parts of the Oxford Canal, the Coventry Canal, the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, Stratford Canal, Worcester & Birmingham Canal and the Grand Union Main Line. A great mix of rural and urban cruising.
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Tixall Wide & Return
This is a journey which takes you through landscapes of outstanding beauty. With stories of canal companies, pottery makers, and aristocrats who shaped their surroundings for their pleasure, you’ll meet wildlife and learn about language and perhaps new tiller skills!
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Braunston & Return
A relaxing cruise through mostly open countryside, this is a journey of junctions and battles between two rival canals, the Oxford and the Grand Union. With tales of trade and heritage, sport and poetry, and the charisma of one of Britain's canals’ most loved hubs.
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Fradley Junction & Return
Treading a rural route through nature reserves and pools left behind by industry, this cruise winds gently through beautiful countryside. You’ll hear stories of mining and hat making, money troubles, medieval angels and the English language.
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Napton Junction & Return
This is a peaceful journey of junctions and battles between two rival canals, the Oxford and the Grand Union through one of Britain’s canals’ most loved hubs. A relaxing mostly lock-free cruise through open countryside, you’ll discover sporting history, Horseley iron bridges and symbolic windmills.
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Snarestone & Return
This peaceful lock-free route meanders through countryside and mingles pleasantly with wildlife, while whispering old stories of stockings, steam engines and fancy teapots. Yet it secretly harbours deathly histories of Richard III and bloody battles too.
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