Degree of difficulty:
Demanding
Requirements:
Boating license essential
Character of waterway:
with urban surroundings
Profile of waterway:
Commercial traffic and tourism
Facilities groundside:
Sufficiant
Wharfs, Marinas, Harbors, Facilities, Houseboat hirers, Restaurants and Shops.
Aire and Calder Navigation
This canal, part of the waterway from the North Sea to the Irish Sea, still plays a role in commercial shipping. Meeting these ships is part of the adventure on this not terribly romantic river/canal. River River Aire is quite often flooding. One might therefore have to wait for better conditions.
Navigational notes include: Planning a cruise, using a lock and bridges,
winding holes, boatyards and local services. Covers the Aire & Calder and
Calder & Hebble navigations and the Bridgewater, Lancaster, Huddersfield
Broad and Narrow, Leeds & Liverpool, Macclesfield, Peak Forrest, Ashton,
Rochdale and Trent & Mersey (Preston Brook to Kidsgrove) canals. Also: The
history of each canal, places of interest, pubs and restaurants, opportunities
for walking and cycling. Spiralbounding, size: A5
Prize: € 23.50 | for map / book orders
To the waters
To the country
Links on this page and on the detailed map of this waterway.