My Canal Trip Reports

On this page I'm hoping to create a list of canal trips and holidays I've been on over the years and with any luck it will keep growing.

I won't link to logs of the trips at first (chiefly because there isn't any) but any trips from now on will get their own logs and who knows, I may get round to writing up the past trips if I can remember them!

October 2011 - Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal, Grand Union Canal

May 2011 - Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, Trent & Mersey Canal



September 2009 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, Trent & Mersey Canal

May 2009 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Stratford Canal, Grand Union Canal

October 2008 - Grand Union Canal, Oxford Canal, Coventry Canal, Ashby Canal

August 2008 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Grand Union Canal, Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal

September 2006 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, River Severn, Worcester & Birmingham Canal

October 2004 - Birmingham Canal Navigations

May 2004 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Trent and Mersey Canal, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

October 2003 - Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal, River Avon, River Severn, Worcestershire & Birmingham Canal, Birmingham Canal Navigations

May 2003 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, River Severn, Worcester & Birmingham Canal

March 2003 - Birmingham Canal Navigations

October 2002 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Grand Union Canal, Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal



October 2002 - Birmingham Canal Navigations

April 2002 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal



October 2001 - Oxford Canal, Grand Union Canal, Birmingham Canal Navigations



March 2001 - Birmingham Canal Navigations

May 2000 - Birmingham Canal Navigations



August? 1993 - Birmingham Canal Navigations, Worcester & Birmingham Canal, River Severn, River Avon, Stratford Canal, Grand Union Canal

Saturday 19th October to Saturday 26th October 1991 - Oxford Canal and Grand Union Canals

My second ever canal holiday.  Again this log was put together from notes in a notebook found whilst rummaging through my old wardrobe at my parents' house.

This was a holiday with my parents, mum's parents and my brother.  We hired the narrow boat 'Heyford' from Anglo Welsh who at that time had a base at Aynho Wharf and travelled north to just beyond Braunston before heading back.

Hopefully I will be able to find pictures at some point.

Day 1: Aynho Wharf to King's Sutton

Day 2: King's Sutton to Fenny Compton

Day 3: Fenny Compton to Braunston

Day 4: Braunston to Napton via Norton Junction

Day 5: Napton to Cropredy

Day 6: Cropredy to Aynho

Day 7: Aynho to Heyford and back

Day 8: Aynho

Saturday 24th to Saturday 31st October 1987 - Southern Oxford Canal

My first ever canal holiday was in October 1987.  At the time my mum was a Girl Guide leader and this was a training trip in order for her to get some kind of certification to take Guides on the canals.  We hired a 70 foot narrow boat called Water Eagle from a company based at Fenny Compton Marina on the southern section of the Oxford Canal and took it to Oxford and back.  During the holiday I recall visiting the now closed bygones museum at Claydon and having a burger in the burger bar at RAF Upper Heyford.

Somewhere in another box is a scrapbook I made at the time with pictures and more details but at least for now I have the dates and places which I'd previously forgotten during the last 28 years.

Day 1: Fenny Compton to Claydon
Day 2: Claydon to King's Sutton
Day 3: King's Sutton to Kirtlington Quarry
Day 4: Kirtlington Quarry to Oxford
Day 5: Oxford to Kirtlington Quarry
Day 6: Kirtlington Quarry to Banbury
Day 7: Banbury to Claydon
Day 8: Claydon to Fenny Compton

Stratford Canal - October 2003