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Your Guide to Our Top 100 Destinations Escape to One of Our Top 100 Destinations Near You, with Our FREE, Downloadable and Printable Maps FREE days out for all on your doorstep! Your guide to our top 100 destinations Escape to one of our top 100 destinations near you, with our FREE, downloadable and printable maps Get away from it all and enjoy quality ‘Real Time’ at our top 100 Destinations. Head online to find our FREE ‘Readymade Waterway Days’, each one has inspiring ideas for fun-packed family days out. Whether you hanker for adventure or just want to relax and soak up the scenery, you can take to the water in a canoe, cycle or walk along our towpaths. Get closer to nature and watch the wildlife or try the tranquil pleasures of fishing. You’ll find culture in our museums, plenty of places to enjoy the odd pint and a bite to eat. For great value trips download our FREE maps and activity sheets and discover a ‘Readymade Waterway Day’ in your area. canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit Download the app To download our free app ‘Places to Visit’ visit canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit or download from the App Store or Google Play™ The Tees Barrage 1 Sowerby Bridge 11 & Stockton Tuel Tunnel Lock, lock keeper, Viewing platform, take binoculars, boat hire, Wainhouse Tower, seals, water sports, boat trips, picnic area, café, pub. feed the ducks, narrowboats, picnic area, café, pub. Tees Barrage Way, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6QA Stanley St, Sowerby Bridge HX6 2AJ Ripon 2 Standedge Tunnel 12 Bird hides, boat trips, towpath, Boat trips, Tunnel End Reservoir wildflowers, visit Ripon Cathedral, Nature Trail, visit Loft Space Creative converted canal buildings, walk down the towpath, hub, picnic area, Information Centre, play area, café. café. Canal Wharf, Ripon HG4 1AQ Waters Rd, Marsden, Huddersfield HD7 6NQ Lune Aqueduct 3 Uppermill 13 One of the ‘Seven Wonders of Walk to Standedge Tunnel, the Waterways’, boat trips, newly Information Centre, picnic area, opened cycle path, bird-spotting, digital memories trail, visit Saddleworth Museum, boat trips, pub. café, pub. Caton Rd, Lancaster LA1 3PE Wool Rd, Uppermill OL3 5QR Lancaster & 4 Portland Basin 14 Penny Street Basin Portland Basin Museum, Information Centre, waterbus, café, Peak Forest Canal, narrowboats, pub, QR trail waymarkers, Lancaster Castle. Water picnic area, café, boat trips. Portland Place, Witch Basin, Aldcliffe Ln, Lancaster LA1 1SU Heritage Wharf, Ashton-under-Lyne OL7 0QA Garstang 5 Wigan Pier 15 Quaint bridges, stone aqueduct, Boats passing through the locks, no locks – great to explore by Wigan Pier, old canal cottages, canoe, Information Centre, Fairtrade shopping, cycling, dry dock, café, boat trips, restored Trencherfield Mill café, pub. Kepple Ln, Garstang PR3 IPA Steam Engine, pub. Wallgate, Wigan WN3 4EU Skipton 6 Albert Dock & 16 Skipton Castle, Springs Branch Liverpool Canal Link forming a moat, water mill, boat trips, Spot ocean-going cruisers, eat fish & chips, feed the ducks, cycling, café, pub. cycling, sail on a Mersey Ferry, visit the Museum of Coach St Car Park, Coach St, Skipton BD23 1LE Liverpool, café, pub. Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4AA Bingley Five Rise Locks 7 Marple Locks 17 Boats working through the locks, Deepest locks in the country, café that was once stables, cycling, quirky foot bridge, picnic area, interactive QR trail, picnic area, café. take binoculars, woodlands, bird spotting, boat trips Beck Ln, Bingley BD16 4DT café, pub. Marple Locks, Station Rd, SK6 7DA Saltaire 8 Bugsworth Canal Basin 18 Picnic area, cycling, play area, Visitor Centre, limekiln remains, Saltaire to Bingley QR trail, visit water birds, picnic area, cycling, Salts Mill home to works by David Hockney, café, pub. café, pub. Brookside, Buxworth, High Peak Salts Mill, Victoria St, Saltaire BD98 8AA SK23 7NE Pocklington (Canal 9 Clarence Mill 19 Head to Melbourne) & Adelphi Mill Boat trips, Information Centre, Visit Bollington Discovery Centre, bring binoculars, picnic area. Melbourne, York, cycling, picnic area, play area, boat trips, café, pub. YO42 4QJ & Pocklington YO42 1NW Clarence Rd, Bollington SK10 5JZ Hebden Bridge 10 Sprotborough 20 Boat trips, art galleries & Bird spotting, take binoculars, independent shops, heritage boat trips, picnic area, cycling, trail, Information Centre, picnic area, café, pub. feed the ducks, holiday & taster cruises, pub. King St, Hebden Bridge, HX7 6LU Nursery Ln, Sprotborough, Doncaster DN5 7NB Drakeholes 21 Nantwich 31 Take a fishing net, go canal Cast iron aqueduct, boat trips dipping, bring binoculars, picnic & hire, pack a picnic, Information area, Drakeholes Tunnel, visit the haunted White Centre, visit Nantwich Museum, café, pub. Swan pub. Eel Pool Rd, Doncaster DN10 5DH First Wood St, Nantwich CW5 5EG Torksey Lock 22 Audlem 32 Bird spotting, peewits, 13th century church, water taxi, narrowboats, barges, clapper gate, marina, Mill Craft Centre & Canal six pairs of lock gates, Information Centre, café. Shop, café, pub, Information Centre, picnic area, Torksey, Lincolnshire LN1 2EH wildlife. Cheshire St, Audlem CW3 0AH Brayford Pool, Lincoln 23 Ellesmere 33 Narrowboats, cycling, visit Sculpture Trail, Information Lincoln Cathedral, boat trips, walk Centre, marina, narrowboats, along High Bridge, marina, café, pub & mute swans! mere, picnic area, boat hire, café, pub, shopping town. Lucy Tower St, Lincoln LN1 1XW Cross St, Rd, Ellesmere SY12 9AA Anderton Boat Lift 24 Pontcysyllte Aqueduct 34 Visitor Centre, Northwich & World Heritage Site Woodlands, willow & wood Boat trips & hire, picnic area, sculptures, mosaic, picnic area, boat trips, café, pub. Offa’s Dyke National Trail, pub, Information Centre. Lift Ln, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 6FW Pontcysyllte Aqueduct LL20 7YQ Middlewich 25 Llangollen 35 Boat hire, find the plaque on Steam railway, visit Llangollen the bridge, Canal & Salt Trail, Museum, boat trips, pack a picnic, water birds, have a picnic, play area, café, pub. Information Centre, take binoculars, café, pub. Civic Way, Middlewich CW11 1HZ Main Car Park, Market St, Llangollen LL20 8RT National 26 Newark 36 Waterways Museum Picnic area, play area, boat trips, Old docks, warehouse, step inside Information Centre, café, pub, a traditional narrowboat, sculptures, boat trips, café. Historic Riverside Trail, visit Newark Castle, walk South Pier Rd, Ellesmere Port CH65 4FW to the locks. Tolney Ln, Newark NG24 1BZ Westport Lake 27 Gunthorpe 37 Bird spotting, migrating birds, Huge bottom gate, boat trips, hunt for insects, circular walk, walk the historic Gunthorpe Information Centre, narrowboats, café, play area. Bridge, water birds, narrowboats, cycling, café, pub. Westport, Lake Rd, Stoke-on-Trent ST6 4RZ Trentside, Gunthorpe NG14 7FB Chester 28 Stoke Lock & Woods 38 Bridge of Sighs, Northgate Woodpeckers, pike, walk in the Locks, King Charles’s Tower, woods, picnic area, play area, café, pub, restaurant boat, picnic area, Information narrowboats, clapper gate, cycling, pub. Riverside, Centre. Gorse Stacks, Chester CH1 3EQ Stoke Bardolph, Nottingham NG14 5HX Rudyard Lake 29 Castle Wharf – 39 Boat trips, miniature railway, Nottingham take a camera, play area, rowing, Visit Nottingham Castle, walk south canoeing, sailing, fishing, picnic area, Information to Victoria Embankment, cycling, waterside cafés, pub. Centre, café. Lake Rd, Leek ST13 8XB Nottingham Castle, Canal St NG1 7HG Consall Forge 30 Victoria Embankment 40 Consall Forge Nature Park, – Nottingham spot birds of prey, picnic area, Viewing platform, pack a picnic, bring a fishing net, go canal dipping, cycling, pub. cycling café, pub, boat trips, Memorial Gardens, Wetley Rocks, Stoke-on-Trent ST9 0AF Trent Bridge, watch boats. Nottingham, NG2 2JY Trent Lock 41 Earlswood Lakes 51 Walk Cranfleet Cut, cycling, Water birds, watch anglers, wildlife, coots, swans, kingfishers, Old Engine House, fishing, heritage buildings to explore, spot a working barge, café, pub. walk with small brass-rubbing plates, picnic area, play Long Eaton NG10 2FY area, café, pub. Wood Ln, Earlswood, B94 6AD Great Haywood 42 Stourport on Severn 52 Essex Bridge, woodlands, Explore the town, wide locks, Shugborough Hall, Chartley Castle, canal basins, take a boat trip, boat trips, kingfishers, pike, picnic area, café, pub. picnic beside the river, café, pub. Mill Ln, Great Haywood, Staffordshire ST18 0RQ For Riverside parking: DY13 8UJ Fradley Junction 43 Hatton Locks 53 Audio trail, dry dock, go 21 locks, picnic area, go for pond-dipping, Nature Reserve, a family bike ride, amazing steel crane, Information Centre, café, pub. sculptures, nature trail, old brick narrow locks, café, Alrewas, Staffordshire DE13 7DN pub. Canal Rd, Warwick CV35 7JL Sutton Cheney 44 Braunston 54 Pack a picnic, canal dipping, Quirky bridges, marina, find the canoeing, waterside café, site stop house, visit All Saints Church, of Battle of Bosworth. Wharf Ln, Sutton Cheney, picnic area, Information Centre, café, pub. Nuneaton CV13 0AL The Wharf, Braunston, Daventry NN11 7JQ Bratch Locks 45 Stratford-upon-Avon 55 Visit Bratch Pumping Station, Boat trips, picnic area, pub, café take binoculars, Bumblehole Lock, Information Centre, see one of picnic area, circular walk, Railway Café, pub. Shakespeare’s plays, cycle to Mary Arden’s house! Bratch Ln, Wombourne, Staffordshire WV5 8DH Swan’s Nest Ln, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BB Dudley Tunnel 46 Diglis Basin 56 Boat trips through Dudley Visit Worcester Cathedral, Tunnel, visit Black Country Living swan sanctuary, picnic area, boat Museum, café, pub, picnic area, Outdoor Activity trips, explore the circular walk, take a break on the Centre. Tipton Rd, Dudley DY1 4SQ floating café, pub. Diglis Rd, Worcester
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