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Canal Holiday Cruise with Rose Narrowboats

Planning your canal holiday cruise route

Short Breaks - see routes and boats
One week routes
Grand Union to Warwick
Ashby Canal & Oxford Canal
Grand Union Canal to Leighton Buzzard
South Oxford Canal to Banbury
Trent & Mersey Canal and Coventry Canal to Great Haywood or Burton-on-Trent
Grand Union Canal to Market Harborough
One - two week routes
The Warwickshire Ring
Stratford-on-Avon Canal
The Birmingham Ring
The Leicester Loop
Two week routes
The Avon Ring
The South Oxford Canal & The River Thames
Three week route
The Grand Ring

Canal Holiday Cruise routes

There are over 2000 miles of inland waterways to enjoy a canal holiday cruise  in England, varying in character wherever they lie. Rose Narrowboats' fleet is based at the heart of this network of waterways, giving you a generous choice of canal holiday routes to canal cruise and places to see.

A one or two week canal holiday cruise will allow you to travel quite a distance, either as an out-and-back trip or travelling a "Ring". Out-and-back means that you can take your time doing whatever you want to do as long as you allow enough time to get back again (the scenery always looks different coming back the other way), whereas travelling a Ring means you have to be more watchful of your timing. But of course you will have fresh views all the way.

Experience has shown that certain routes are more feasible than others and some require two or three weeks to complete. We describe recommended canal holiday routes on other pages, see the links on the right. Much fuller details of these routes, as well as possible longer routes, can be found in the excellent guides which you can select from the list at the bottom of this page - Click to see Maps & Guides - and order them on the Booking Form.

Canal Holiday Cruise with Rose Narrowboats
GENERAL MAPS
Nicholson’s Ordnance Survey Inland Waterways of Great Britain £6.50
Lockmaster Maps No’s 1-26 Please specify which area (folded) £3.50
GEO Projects Inland Waterways of Britain £6.50
GUIDES Below are the more popular ones. We have a selection of other guides and books in our shop
PEARSON’S CANAL COMPANIONS, detailed and informative
- South Midlands, Warwickshire Ring & Ashby Canal and other Pearson’s £9.95
- Oxford & Grand Union Canals inc Leicester Section, River Nene £9.95
GEO PROJECTS MAPS, folded single sheets
- Birmingham Canal Navigations £5.50
- Coventry, Ashby, Birmingham & Fazeley Canals £5.50
- Grand Union Canal (4 Maps) Each £5.50
- Oxford Canal £5.50
- Thames Ring (Spiral Bound) £12.50
NICHOLSON’S ORDNANCE SURVEY GUIDES
- NO1: London, Grand Union, Oxford & Leicester £13.95
- NO2: Severn, Avon & Birmingham £13.95
- NO3: Birmingham & the Heart of England £13.95
Prices are subject to change and charged at a lower price if applicable.
We hold a wide stock of other books, maps and guides, as well as gifts and souvenirs and can usually send these by return post.
Prices include postage within the United Kingdom, but please add £1.75 per map or guide for postage overseas.

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Canal Holiday Cruise with Rose Narrowboats