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In 1983 Braidbar Boats was established as a narrowboat building business in Lord Vernon’s Wharf on the Macclesfield Canal at Poynton, Cheshire. [2] The company produces around 7 quality narrowboats each year [3] and has won many awards, including Favourite Boat in Show at the Crick Boat Show in 2000, 2007 and 2018.
The Four Counties Ring, which offers a variety of scenery and cruising for a narrowboat holiday, takes in the counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and West Midlands. [1] Highlights include the Industrial Canal Heritage of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries region, the wealthy pasturelands of Cheshire, to the stunning remote sandstone ...
A converted working narrowboat, Clypeus, opens up leaving Penton Hook Lock heading upstream past the weir. Clypeus is number 28 in the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company fleet, being one of 12 iron composite pairs of Star Class boats built by Yarwoods of Northwich in 1935.
The Cheshire Ring is a popular canal cruise which includes six of the canals in Cheshire. Because it takes approximately a week to complete, it is suited to narrowboat holidays which start and return to the same location. The route has 92 locks and is 97 miles (156 km) long.
Ashton Canal at Droylsden. The Cheshire Ring is a canal cruising circuit or canal ring, which includes sections of six canals in and around Cheshire and Greater Manchester in North West England: the Ashton Canal, Peak Forest Canal, Macclesfield Canal, Trent and Mersey Canal, Bridgewater Canal and Rochdale Canal.
In 2005, a marina was constructed by British Waterways, just upstream from Llangollen Wharf, to relieve the acute shortage of casual moorings, and provides 33 berths. About 100 yards (91 m) downstream of the wharf there are about a dozen visitor moorings complete with individual electricity and water pedestals at each.
Sawley Marina was developed by the Davison family, and by the 1960s the marina became established as a leading inland marina after the chandlery shop was opened, and the "Narrow Boat Register" for boat sales was created. British Waterways bought the concern in 1999 of what has now become one of the finest inland marinas on the British Waterways ...
Ellesmere Port (/ ˈ ɛ l z m ɪər / ELZ-meer) is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England. Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, six miles (ten kilometres) north of Chester, on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census. [2]