Featured Routes - 7+ nights

Llangollen & Return

7 nights • 24 locks • Cruising time per day: 5.5 hrs • Total: 38 hrs

• If you would like to travel to Llangollen, but were looking to complete more locks, then start from Wrenbury Marina rather than Whitchurch or Blackwater Meadow.
• The last locks before Llangollen are at New Marton, halfway between Ellesmere and Chirk.
• From there on the canal clings to the hillside contours. An enchanting blend of aqueducts and tunnels will take you lock-free through to Llangollen.

Ellesmere Port & Return

7 nights • 48 locks • Cruising time per day: 6.5 hrs • Total: 31 hrs

• From Wrenbury, you will travel up the Llangollen Canal to join the Shropshire Union Canal and travel up to the industrial town of Ellesmere Port.
• Why not visit the National Waterways Museum which brings together a unique fleet of historic boats and archives to tell the story of Britain's canals and waterways?

Market Drayton

7 nights • 62 locks • Cruising time per day: 5 hrs • Total: 25 hrs

• When you join the Shropshire Union Canal at Hurleston Junction head down the canal to Market Drayton.
• Did you know Market Drayton has been the home of gingerbread for the last 200 years?

The Cheshire Ring

11-14 nights • 137 locks • Cruising time per day: 6 hrs • Total: 72 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

14 nights • 132 locks • Cruising time per day: 6 hrs • Total: 69 hrs

• Takes you along the wonderfully rural Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal to Great Haywood Junction.
• Passing under a distinctive roving bridge, you join the Trent & Mersey Canal heading north towards the Potteries and Peak District.
• Rolling Staffordshire countryside leads you to Stoke-on-Trent, the Wedgwood Visitor Centre and the impressive 2926-yard long Harecastle Tunnel.
• The scenery on the climb up ‘Heartbreak Hill’ to the summit at Kidsgrove is fantastic.
• Beyond Harecastle the 13 miles to the salt town of Middlewich sees the canal descend 31 locks to the Cheshire Plains.
• The short Middlewich arm links the Trent and Mersey Canal to the Shropshire Union Canal again through more glorious countryside.

Short Breaks - 3/4 nights

Whitchurch & Return

3 nights • 20 locks • Cruising time per day: 4 hrs • Total: 11 hrs

Travel between our Wrenbury and Whitchurch Marinas and explore Whitchurch before you return

Ellesmere & Return

3 nights • 20 locks • Cruising time per day: 8.5 hrs • Total: 22 hrs

The run into Ellesmere is through an area of outstanding beauty, with a series of Ice-Age lakes known as ‘meres’ very close to the canal.

Chirk & Return

4 nights • 24 locks • Cruising time per day: 6 hrs • Total: 30 hrs

Towards the Welsh border at Chirk, the country’s fine hills come into view and the scenery becomes altogether more dramatic.