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Yesterday, in response to someones post about Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, I posted a video a short video of us crossing it last year. So, I thought you might also like to see a video of us passing through Chirk Tunnel and over Chirk Aqueduct a little while later the same day. We were lucky that a train was crossing Chirk viaduct at the same time!!
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www.tomscruisers.co.uk We are based at Tattenhall Marina in the beautiful Cheshire countryside on the Shropshire Union Canal. We are available for week, fortnight or longer breaks as well as weekend hire. Visit our website at www.tomscruisers.co.uk for information on our lovely 57 foot long 6 berth narrowboat Rosemary. We can be contacted by e mail at [email protected] or by telephone on 0759 0987394.
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Andersen Boats - Middlewich, Cheshire www.andersenboats.com [email protected] 01606 833668 Andersen Boats is a family run business, which has been run by us (the Andersen family) in Middlewich for over 40 years. We believe that for a canal boating holiday we offer one of the best starting points to access a wide range of amazing routes in England and Wales. We offer day boat hire and longer breaks ( some booking with us for up to 4 weeks :-) ), so you can take as short or as long a tour of our beautiful canals as you wish on one of our narrowboat fleet, which is consistently described as one of the best fleets in our region.
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Hi, So we are going to see the famous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct leaving from Fenny Compton (Just north of Banbury on the Oxford canal), and the question to all those experienced boaters out there, is which way would be the best for us... Us being SWMBO and myself only, both of us retired. SWMBO refuses to steer the boat, so has to do all the locks. Time and distance is not an issue but locks are. Double locks are terrible but single locks not so bad. If they are close together than I can close them for her while she goes to set the next one... The route I'm thinking of is..up the Oxford, left at Napton onto the top of the Grand Union canal. Then off at the Kingswood junction onto the Stratford-upon-Avon to Kings Norton Junction, turn right going north to the Birmingham Main line to Autherley Junction and then north up the Shropshire Union canal to the Llangollen canal. see https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zjsJ2QUJ-Z-A.kMfF21e046r8&usp=sharing Looks like over 100 locks this way!! An alternative is to go to Braunston and use the Coventry canal and then the Trent & Mersey to Middlewich and then down to the Llangollen. My calcs say 75 locks this way!! Any advice from the great wealth of knowledge that is on the forum would be very appreciated... thanks in advance Clive
