Duration: 7-10 Nights
TOTAL LOCKS: 66/74
CRUISING TIME PER DAY: 6-7.5 HOURS
TOTAL CRUISING TIME: 55 HOURS
Maps & Guides for this route: P3, N4, L8 | Click here buy maps
From Blackwater you travel up the Llangolen canal, past our Whitchurch and Wrenbury marinas to join the Shropshire Union canal. This route can be completed in 7 or 10 nights.
If you want to take more time out in Chester and travel on to Ellesmere Port, then choose the 10 night trip. Chester has plenty to do such as walking the City Walls, visiting the Cathedral, shopping or dining out.
Cruise from Blackwater Meadow to Chester in 7 nights or take 10 nights and carry on to Ellesmere Port.
Follow the Llangollen Canal past Whitchurch and Wrenbury, then join the Shropshire Union Canal for the run towards Chester.
Stop in Chester to walk the city walls, visit the cathedral, shop, eat out or explore the city before turning back.
Choose the longer 10-night trip if you want more time out and the option to cruise beyond Chester to Ellesmere Port.
Past Frankton Junction, through Chirk, across Chirk Aqueduct then Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and back.
More InformationThis Ring takes in parts of the Llangollen Canal, Shropshire Union Canal, Trent & Mersey Canal, Bridgewater Canal, Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal and all of the Macclesfield Canal. The route from Blackwater Meadow takes in several tunnels and aqueducts, countless lift bridges, swing bridges and snake bridges, and 138 locks
More InformationThis is one of the more rural cruising rings taking you through the counties of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire andthe West Midlands.
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