Basin Bridge, Hinckley
Trip Length 6 hours
Basin Bridge is bridge 22 on the Ashby Canal and there is a small residential marina with no facilities for trips, just a place for us to turnaround. Its a peaceful setting…
Day Trips
Destinations available for your cruise onboard The Hargreaves are listed below. All depart from our base opposite Boot Wharf, Bull Ring, Nuneaton. The cruising speed on inland canals is a maximum of 4 miles per hour which doesn’t include mandatory lowers speed restriction past moored boats. For this reason our destinations are limited in either direction from our base.
All trips are listed in actual cruising time. For the length of a cruise, add together the trip time plus any time needed for your lunch stop.
Marston Junction
Trip Length 1½ hours
Marston Junction is where the Ashby Canal joins the Coventry Canal and where evidence of the original stop lock remains…
Springwood Haven
Trip Length 2 hours
A relatively short trip along the Coventry Canal but one that will leave behind the town and…
The Greyhound, Hawkesbury
Trip Length 3 hour
Hawkesbury Junction, or Sutton Stop is the junction between the Coventry and Oxford Canals and…
The Lime Kilns, Hinckley
Trip Length 5 hours
A trip to The Lime Kilns, Hinckley will enable you to experience the difference of two canals. Turning off…
Wyken Arm, Coventry
Trip Length 4½ hours
Wyken Arm is a dissused arm of the Oxford Canal now used for private moorings…
Map of our routes
