Banbury

10 - 14 nights 

All  boats can be booked for 10 day hire from Friday or Saturday through to Monday or Tuesday week, or 11 day hire from Monday/Tuesday to Friday/Saturday week.

Hours cruising each way to: 
Banbury: 34 hrs*
73 miles, 27 wide locks, 22 narrow locks, 2 aqueducts, 2 tunnels.

*These are approximate hrs and do not account for possible delays.

Travel north along the Ouzel Valley though the parks of Milton Keynes and over the Aqueducts at Wolverton and Cosgrove and then on to the picturesque Northamptonshire village of Stoke Bruerne. Take your boat up through the flight of seven locks and on through the nearly two mile long Blisworth Tunnel and on to Gayton Junction.

Continue on through Northamptonshire and its attractive stone villages to Weedon, reputed to be the centre of England. Bear left at Norton Junction, then through the Braunston Tunnel and locks to Braunston Junction where the Oxford to Coventry Canal crosses the London to Birmingham Canal.

Braunston village grew up around the canal and became well known for the building of wooden narrowboats. After turning left at Braunston continue on to Napton Junction where you bear left and on to the meandering South Oxford Canal with its narrow locks.

Continue on through the beautiful historic village or Cropredy then on to Banbury where the canal runs adjacent to the new shopping centre.
 

Canal & River Holiday Cruises Map Key


Hours cruising each way to:
Banbury: 34 hrs*
73 miles, 27 wide locks, 22 narrow locks, 2 aqueducts, 2 tunnels.

*These are approximate hrs and do not account for possible delays.