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Hi - We have two friends from New York visiting us for the last week in July. We plan to spend 4/5 days on the canals. Over the last 10 years we have been on several holidays including Avon Ring, Middlewich to Llangollan, Macclefield , Mon and Brec, Norfolk Broads, and around the Crick area (where good friends keep their own boat).

 

We have never cruised during school holidays, and we are concerned that we would find the most popular routes busy and frustrating. We'd plan to travel for 6 hours a day; so about 100 miles/locks for the planned holiday. From our limited experience our candidates for these 4/5 days would be:

 

1. The Lancaster Canal, (though the complete absence of locks is not in its favour)

2. Sowerby Bridge up to Todmordon on the Rochdate Canal.

3. 4/5 day on the South Oxford canal (spending a day in Oxford)

 

Will the Rochdale Canal as busy as those I listed above? Sadly Scotland is out as it's too far in the time we have.

 

Any advice would be gratefully received,

 

Mike and Evey

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If you can work it to start on a day that everybody else isn't or go in the opposite way from the others, you should be all right.

It's amazing how quickly the boats disperse.

 

Oxford would be lovely - get away from the main drag and it's very quiet.

 

Now what did the bloke say - Stratford. Lots of locks, and Oxenford has:-

 

  • "private" visits to the colleges
  • Lots of ethnic foods - Great Chinese in Hythe Bridge Street. recommended by Giles Coren no less. Not expensive.
  • Six museums Four of which are different.
  • Relaxed atmosphere (apart from the shopping areas)
  • Good pubs.

 

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You can do a one way trip, or a short break, on the Leeds Liverpool leaving from Apperley Bridge, that should still be quiet in the school holidays. Lots of lovely locks and bridges to keep you busy and Saltaire to visit, some good history there!

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Thanks for your replies.

We've decided on the Leeds Liverpool, hoping to cover Saltaire to just above Burnley.

If you have a favourite mooring in the Bingley/Saltair section then that would be nice to know.

Also, going west after Foulridge Tunnel where does the countryside run out into urban (does it matter?) and is there another good mooring between the tunnel and the top Barrowford lock?

 

Thanks again Mike

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Thanks for your replies.

We've decided on the Leeds Liverpool, hoping to cover Saltaire to just above Burnley.

If you have a favourite mooring in the Bingley/Saltair section then that would be nice to know.

Also, going west after Foulridge Tunnel where does the countryside run out into urban (does it matter?) and is there another good mooring between the tunnel and the top Barrowford lock?

 

Thanks again Mike

 

The section north of Burnley to east of Skipton is the most scenic. You can take in the Foulridge tunnel, Barnoldswick, Gargrave and the lovely market town of Skipton. Stunning raw scenery, plenty of locks before Skipton and swing bridges after. Diversions if you have time, are a visit to Embsay steam railway (walkable from Skipton) or a bus trip to Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales National Park also from Skipton.

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