Sites next to canals

Marleyboyrox
Marleyboyrox Forum Participant Posts: 2
edited March 2016 in UK Campsites & Touring #1

I would like to be on a site so i can watch the narrow boats pass by.  Any good suggestions?

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  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭
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    edited March 2016 #2

    What part of the country? There is a CL between Brecon and Pencelli which is right by the canal side with great views. Or the C&CC site at Devizes is alongside the canal although to see the boats you'd need to go up onto the towpath (about 100 yards). further south the Minnows AS near Tiverton is fairy adjacent to the canal, not sure if it's a stretch used by narrow boats All a fair distance from your neck of the woods though, I'm afraid. Hope someone can come up with some sggestions nearer you. Good luck! .Happy. Use left and right arrows to navigate.

  • EileenFM
    EileenFM Forum Participant Posts: 52
    edited March 2016 #3

    There is a CL, Home Farm, at Stke Bruerne, which is next to the Narrow Boat museum, with a pub adjacent, also boat trips. On the Grand Union canal, Overwater Marina has a CL. Cosgrove Park is next to the grand Union canal

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2016 #4

    There are a few CLs scattered up and down the country. Suggest use site map, handbook and OS map of area you fancy to pinpoint a few. Hebden Bridge Club Site won't be too far away from Canal?

  • peegeenine
    peegeenine Forum Participant Posts: 548
    edited March 2016 #5

    Pridewater Estates have a CL adjacent to their marina at New Mills in Derbyshire. The CL is all hardstanding and has excellent toilets and showers aswell as EHU. It is within walking distance of the town and all it has to offer, close to railway and bus
    routes. The historic Bugsworth Basin is only about 3 miles away where there is a nice dog friendly pub. Details on CC website. Check out UKCANALS NETWORK website for others.

  • scoutman
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    edited March 2016 #6

    Llangollen canal only a short walk from Lady Margaret's Park CC site at Chirk

  • Rob2CathDavies
    Rob2CathDavies Forum Participant Posts: 145
    edited March 2016 #7

    High Onn CC site is a 15 minute walk from the Shropshire Union.  You can do a lovely circular walk from the site taking in a mile or so of towpath, and a longer walk into Wheaton Aston to have lunch at the canal-side pub. There are a number of marinas in
    the area but all a drive away.  Also a few canal side pubs, all a drive though.  Don't know any Club sites that are actually canal side, but recently saw a small site in New Mills on the Peak Forest Canal, right at the marina.  Could be a CL or a CS, not sure.
     

  • Rob2CathDavies
    Rob2CathDavies Forum Participant Posts: 145
    edited March 2016 #8

    Whoops just noticed details of the New Mills Marina site in  reply above, sorry!

  • HelenandTrevor
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    edited March 2016 #9

    We are at Poolsbrook, the Chesterfield Canal is about a mile or so from the site. 

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2016 #10

    Chesterfield Canal is lovely in places Hand T! One of our regular walks, we have canoed parts of it as well.

  • Dickdastardly1
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    edited March 2016 #11

    Lady Margaret's Park, the canal is a five minute walk away

  • kenexton
    kenexton Forum Participant Posts: 306
    edited March 2016 #12

    The Brecon site is but a short walk from the Brecon and M canal and you can walk to Brecon along it in half an hour or walk/cycle for hours in the opposite direction.River Usk to one side and the Beacons to the other and lined with Spring flowers  in April-we
    are going back for a second visit this year because it was so peaceful and enjoyable.

  • ggregu
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    edited March 2016 #13

    Try Mawr just outside Ellesmere in Shropshire is right alongside the Llangollen canal although is a CS and therefore C &CC. It's a gorgeous site about 4 acres in total withe EHU and toilet/shower facilities. Think it was about £13 per night last May. Lovely
    walks around Colemere from the site too!

  • SteveL
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    edited March 2016 #14

    Lady Margaret's Park, the canal is a five minute walk away

    Take a torch, you can walk through the tunnel on the tow path, great fun watching the boats go through. There is a hand rail all the way through.

  • Marleyboyrox
    Marleyboyrox Forum Participant Posts: 2
    edited March 2016 #15

    Thanks i will get my map out, i am in Cumbria so will see which is closest.

  • Aspenshaw
    Aspenshaw Forum Participant Posts: 611
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    edited March 2016 #16

    New Mills Marina is a great hard standing site in a lovely location. Not the cheapest CL but you do get a decent shower suitbale for familes and for disabled people. Pitch at the front of the site and you can almost fall out of bed into the canal. The same
    firm also have one just outside Leighton Buzzard which was grass pitches. The canal is about 150 yards away from the furthest pitch, the pub about the same distance.

  • TheAdmiral
    TheAdmiral Forum Participant Posts: 506
    edited March 2016 #17

    I started a thread some time ago and received a load of recommendations, sods law cant find it

    Admiral

  • peedee
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    edited March 2016 #18

    It was the first thing google brought up! Its >here<

    peedee

  • brue
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    edited March 2016 #19

    There is a canal side CL at Hatton Locks near Warwick.

  • Brocol
    Brocol Forum Participant Posts: 12
    edited March 2016 #20

    Last used a few years ago (so will need to check if still up and running): Sawley Marina Caravan Park near Long Eaton between Nottingham and Derby. 10 pitch site within the marina which overlooks the canal linking with the River Trent. Lovely towpath walk
    along the canal and then riverbank to two pubs + cafe on site + pub near site entrance. Plenty of activity around the marina.

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited March 2016 #21

    If you are also a member of the C&CC their Devizes site is just a short walk from the Kennet and Avon.

    David

  • moulesy
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    edited March 2016 #22

    Devizes is a lovely, well run site. We were there just last week. Lots of activity on the canal! Happy

  • peedee
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    edited March 2016 #23

    Will this one do?

    >Grove Lock< from Bing Maps

    peedee

  • artyboo
    artyboo Forum Participant Posts: 457
    edited March 2016 #24

    Will this one do?

    >Grove Lock< from Bing Maps

    peedee

    Write your comments here...looks really nice

  • TheAdmiral
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    edited March 2016 #25

    It was the first thing google brought up! Its
    >here<

    peedee

    Thanks Peedee

    Admiral

  • TheAdmiral
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    edited March 2016 #26

    Devizes is a lovely, well run site. We were there just last week. Lots of activity on the canal! Happy

    Blimey Moulsey, that was an epic tow !! Chippenham to Devizes

    Admiral

  • moulesy
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    edited March 2016 #27

    Devizes is a lovely, well run site. We were there just last week. Lots of activity on the canal! Happy

    Blimey Moulsey, that was an epic tow !! Chippenham to Devizes

    Admiral

    Well, yes, it took some doing! But it was a trial run just to check that Lady settled in the van, which she did, fortunately!

    Also, Mrs M, who is an "artiste" had to keep coming back for Oliver rehearsals - show is next week, tickets available at all the usual outlets but selling out fast ( or so I am told!) Wink

  • cariadon
    cariadon Forum Participant Posts: 861
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    edited March 2016 #28

    Kings Orchard Marina, Lichfield, Pridewater site, only a hedge between pitch and canal and a lovely pub along the towpath, Service pitches and bid spacious shower / toilet room.

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