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ITINERARY OF HOLIDAYS ON THE
CANALS AND RIVERS OF
GREAT BRITAIN
As a guide to others who may wish to explore the waterways of England I give a detailed list of the routes traversed. To anyone who is
enthusiastic over sculling or motor boating, there is no more enjoyable way of spending a holiday than on one of the practically unknown
waterways of the country.
These excursions were done chiefly at week-ends and Bank Holiday times, and the mileage covered in all is over two thousand miles. The
routes covered are as follows :-
WATERWAYS TRAVERSED
ENGLAND
The River Thames from the sources at Thames Head, Cirencester and Seven Springs, Cheltenham, to the Nore, including the tributaries,
Cherwell, Thame and Loddon, likewise all the various Docks to Tilbury, and the respective Creeks of Bow, Barking, Deptford, Dartford
and Rainham, also the Surrey, Grosvenor and Kensington Canals; in fact, the river in every way from its source downwards,
in all ... ... ... say, 220 miles.
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Miles |
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Grand Junction Canal Main Line. |
94 |
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Leicester Branch (Norton, near Daventry, to Leicester) ... ... |
41 |
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Branches- |
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Paddington Canal (G. junc.) |
14 |
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Slough Canal |
5 |
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Northampton Canal |
5 |
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Aylesbury Canal |
6 |
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Wendover Canal (in disuse) |
7 |
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Buckingham Canal (partly disused) |
11 |
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183 |
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Leicester Navigation, Leicester, to Loughborough, Leicester |
16 |
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Loughborough Navigation (River Soar), Loughborough to the Trent |
9 |
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Coventry Canal, Fradley (Trent and Mersey Canal) to Hawkesbury Junction on Oxford Canal |
32 |
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57 |
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Regent's Canal (from River Thames to Paddington) |
8 |
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Kennet and Avon Canal (Bristol to Reading, Berks) |
90 |
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Thames and Severn Canal, Lechlade (Glos) and Stroud (now in disuse) |
30 |
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Gloucester and Berkeley Canal (Glos) |
13 |
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Stroudwater Canal (Glos) |
8 |
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River Severn (Shrewsbury to Gloucester) |
91 |
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Worcester and Birmingham Canal (Worcester to King's Norton, S/Avon Canal) |
25 |
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Warwick and Birmingham Canal (part) and Fazeley |
8 |
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Stratford and Avon Canal (part) |
13 |
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Warwick and Napton Canal (Warwick to Napton, Warwickshire) |
14 |
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Oxford Canal from Oxford to Hawkesbury Junction to Coventry Canal |
78 |
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280 |
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River Lea from Thames to Hertford, Herts (via Bow Creek and down to Limehouse out to the Thames) |
29 |
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River Stort (River Lea to Bishop's Stortford, Herts) |
14 |
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43 |
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River Stour (The Great), Canterbury and Fordwich to Ramsgate |
23 |
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River Rother (Midhurst to Pulborough, Sussex) |
13 |
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River Arun (Newbridge, Billinghurst to Littlehampton, Sussex) |
22 |
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35 |
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Grand Military Canal (from Rye, Sussex, to Hythe, Kent) |
21 |
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Sussex Ouse (Barcombe to Newhaven, Sussex) |
15 |
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River Adur (Henfield to Shoreham, Sussex) |
10 |
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25 |
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River Dart (Totnes to Dartmouth, Devon) |
10 |
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River Medway (Chatham to above Tonbridge, Kent) |
31 |
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Gravesend and Rochester Canal to Higham (Kent) |
4 |
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River Wey (from Guildford to Weybridge, Surrey) |
15 |
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Basingstoke Canal (from Basingstoke, Hants, to Weybridge, Surrey) |
38 |
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53 |
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Ipswich Canal, Stowmarket, to Ipswich, Suffolk (River Gripping), thence on the Orwell to Harwich, Essex |
26 |
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River Colne, part (Wivenhoe and Colchester, Essex) |
4 |
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River Stour, Suffolk (from Sudbury, Suffolk, to Manningtree, Essex) |
25 |
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Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation (from Chelmsford to Heybridge and New Maldon, Essex) |
14 |
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69 |
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Manchester Ship Canal (Manchester, to Eastham Lock, into the Mersey) |
36 |
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Trent and Mersey Canal (from Derwent Mouth near Nottingham on the Trent, to Anderton) |
87 |
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River Weaver (Weston Point, Manchester Canal, to Anderton Trent and Mersey Canal) |
7 |
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130 |
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River Trent (from Burton-on-Trent to the Humber) |
113 |
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River Cam (Cambridge to Ely, Cambs) |
17 |
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River Ouse (The Great), from Bedford, Beds, to King's Lynn, Norfolk, near the Wash |
75 |
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River Avon (from Stratford-on-Avon to Tewkesbury, Glos) |
44 |
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River Witham (Boston to Lincoln) |
36 |
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Fossdyke Canal (Lincoln to the Trent) |
11 |
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River Nene (Northampton and near the Wash to Sutton Bridge, Lincs) |
90 |
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137 |
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The Norfolk Broads |
120 |
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Bude Canal, Cornwall |
4 |
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Itchen River, Southampton (part) |
3 |
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Hamble River, Southampton |
8 |
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River Stour, at Christchurch (part) |
4 |
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Avon (Salisbury), at Christchurch (part) |
2 |
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17 |
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WALES |
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Wye (from Hay, River Brec., to Chepstow, Mon) |
100 |
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SCOTLAND |
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The Caledonian Canal |
60 |
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The Crinan Canal, Argyllshire |
9 |
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The Forth and Clyde Canal to Bowling on the Clyde |
35 |
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The Union Canal (from Edinburgh) |
30 |
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134 |
NOTE.- The descriptions in this book are based mainly on the accounts of my cruises, which have
appeared from time to time in '' The Motor Boat," " The Motor,'' '' The Autocar,'' and '' The Lock
to Lock Times,'' and I have to thank the Editors of these journals for the privilege of permitting
me to make this use of the articles.''
P. B.
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