class="cushycms"Here we give you a flavour of the most popular routes available but, with a few restraints, you are free to travel whichever direction you please from your chosen start base and can holiday for a weekend, a week or longer.
Guide book references for each route (P5, N2, L15 etc) refer to the listings on our maps page which can be purchased to help with planning your holiday. As a rough calculation when planning a route, add the number of locks to the distance in miles and divide the total by 3 to give cruising time in hours.
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Stourport Ring, Stratford-upon-Avon & return, The Black Country Ring , Staffordshire & return , Avon Ring (Two weeks) ,Warwickshire Ring (two weeks)
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Shropshire Union Canal & return, Four Counties Ring, Caldon Canal, The Black Country Ring , Stourport & return
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Banbury & return, Oxford & return, Stoke Bruerne & return, Warwickshire Ring, Market Harborough & return, Leicester ( East Midlands) Ring, The Grand Ring, Aylesbury & return, Coventry or Snarestone & return, Warwick & return, Cropredy & return
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The Cheshire Ring, Chester or Ellesmere Port & return, Four Counties Ring, Bingley & return, South Pennine Ring
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Llangollen Canal, Chester or Ellesmere Port & return, The Cheshire Ring, The Four Counties Ring, Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal, Llangynidr & return, Talybont-on-Usk & return
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Hungerford & return, Newbury & return, Reading & return, Bristol & return, The Grand Ring
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Scotland's Canals, Bowling & return, Edinburgh & Glasgow
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Suggested routes and timings are approximate and will be affected by available cruising hours, weather conditions and amount of traffic on the waterway.
More detailed advice will be given when the boat is collected.
When planning any river cruising within your route, do bear in mind that in some weather conditions river navigation may be restricted, so it is worth having an alternative plan.