Atherstone Top Lock
Trip Length 4½ hours
The top of eleven locks that take the Coventry Canal towards Tamworth is a popular destination for many trips on The Hargreaves…
Day Trips
Destinations available for your cruise onboard The Hargreaves are listed below. All depart from our base at Bridge Street, Bull Ring, Nuneaton.CV10 7FD 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…
Map of our routes
