Featured Routes - 7 nights +

Llangollen & Return

7 nights • 4 locks • Cruising per day: 4 hrs • Total: 27 hrs

• The Llangollen Canal is a varied route with isolated sheep pastures to ancient peat mosses and tree-lined lakes to the foothills of Snowdonia.
• From the Whitchurch Marina, you can complete a relaxing week route to Llangollen going over the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct or a 4-night short break (cruising time minimum 8 hours per day with 4 locks).

Chester & Return

7 nights • 66 locks • Cruising time per day: 5 hrs • Total: 35 hrs

• Visit the historic city of Chester with its shopping, restaurants, the River Dee and its spectacular cathedral.

Caldon Canal

14 nights • 136 locks • Cruising time per day: 7.5 hrs • Total: 77 hrs

• An alternative to the Four counties ring but equally energetic.
• You will head up towards the Peak District and enter the Churnet Valley with its stunning countryside.
• The canal terminates at Froghall where you turn and retrace your steps.

Audlem & Return

7 nights • 50 locks • Cruising time per day: 6 hrs • Total: 29 hrs

• This route will take you up the Llangollen Canal and then down the Shropshire Union.
• Audlem is famous for its run of 15 locks on the Shropshire Union Canal.
• Interpretation panels by the towpath in Audlem describe the operation of locks and the canal’s history.
• This route includes 3 staircase locks.

The Cheshire Ring

14 nights • 137 locks • Cruising time per day: 6 hrs • Total: 82 hrs

• It is recommended to travel this ring clockwise, so heading up to Manchester.
• The ring takes in the whole of the Macclesfield Canal, parts of the Trent & Mersey, Bridgewater, Rochdale, Ashton and Peak Forest Canals, providing a range of scenery.
• Enjoy glorious scenery as the Macclesfield Canal skirts the edge of the Pennines.
• If time allows why not take a detour from Marple along the Peak Forest Canal and enjoy stunning views.
• You will cruise through the heart of Manchester and moor at Castlefield to explore the city and places such as the Old Trafford, home of "Man U", the Arndale shopping centre or the Museum of Science and Industry.
• This route has a variety of canal features including broad and narrow locks, aqueducts and tunnels, and the distinctive stone architecture of the Peak District.

The Four Counties Ring

11-14 nights • 132 locks • Cruising time per day: 6 hrs • Total: 79 hrs

• Travel up the canal to the Shropshire Union to begin the ring and then complete it from 11 to 14 days depending on how leisurely you want to take it.

Short Breaks - 3/4 nights

Wrenbury & Return

3 nights • 20 locks • Cruising time per day: 5 hrs • Total: 11 hrs

Travel between our Whitchurch and Wrenbury Marinas on this picturesque canal.

Ellesmere & Return

3 nights • 0 locks • Cruising time per day: 5.5 hrs • Total: 11 hrs

The trip into Ellesmere is through an area of beauty with a series of Ice-Age lakes known as "meres".

Hurleston Junction & Return

3 nights • 32 locks • Cruising timer per day: 9 hrs • Total: 19 hrs

For those wanting a bit more activity, you can cruise east towards the English end of the canal.

Nantwich & Return

4 nights • 40 locks • Cruising time per day: 7 hrs • Total: 21 hrs

Cruise to Nantwich and back on this short break with 40 locks.