The Itinerary with no beer no shopping and no fun! I think we may have to allow extra time!!

Our planned journey will take us up the Thames to Oxford then canals to Rugby, Coventry, The Potteries, to Macclesfield including the Peak Canal finishing our outward journey South of Manchester. We return through Shropshire. If enough time we will do a little sortie into Wales (Llangollen) before on  to Worcester, Stratford upon Avon, back on to the Oxford Canal and home

Total distance is 635 miles and 436 locks. There are at least 79 moveable bridges of which 42 are usually left open; 48 small aqueducts or underbridges; 11 tunnels and 5 major aqueducts.


This is made up of 398 miles of narrow canals; 29 miles of broad canals; 48 miles of small rivers; 159 mile of large rivers; 319 narrow locks; 67 broad locks; 50 large locks.

This will take 323 hours, 31 minutes which is 46 days, 1 hour and 31 minutes at 7 hours per day. For calculation purposes this is taken as 46 days. This means 1 hour for lunch and no beer and no shopping. I think not! It's a good job we've allowed for almost twice the amount of time. That's a lot of beer and a lot of shopping. And a hopefully lot of fun