Summary
This is a trip of 15 miles, 3¼ furlongs and 8 locks from Stantonbury Bridge No 75 to Wright’s Lane Bridge No 45.
This will take 6 hours and 44 minutes.
From Stantonbury Bridge No 75 travel northwest on the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal – Main Line – Gayton to Brentford) for 14 miles, 2¼ furlongs and 8 locks to Gayton Junction, then travel northwest on the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal – Main Line – Norton to Gayton) for 1 mile, ¾ furlongs to Wright’s Lane Bridge No 45.
Route
| Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal – Main Line – Gayton to Brentford) | |||
| From Stantonbury Bridge No 75 to: | |||
| New Bradwell Footbridge No 71B | 1 mile, 2¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| New Bradwell Aqueduct
Crosses Grafton Street. Also known as V6 Aqueduct
|
½ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Wolverton Railway Bridge No 71A | 4 furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| The Galleon PH | 1 mile, 1¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Galleon Wharf
Also known as Old Wolverton Wharf
|
½ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Wolverton Aqueduct
Also known as Great Ouse Aqueduct, Iron Trunk & Cosgrove
|
2¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Cosgrove Visitor Moorings
14 day moorings
|
2¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Winding Hole below Cosgrove Lock | ½ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Junction with Old Stratford Arm | ¼ furlongs, 1 lock | ||
| The Barley Mow PH | 2¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Castlethorpe Wharf Bridge No 64
Castlethorpe village is three-quarters of a mile north east.
|
6½ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Thrupp Wharf Marina
Site of Castlethorpe Wharf
|
½ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Stoke Bruerne Services
Also known as Stoke Bruerne Sanitary Station
|
4 miles, 5 furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Stoke Bruerne Bottom Lock No 20 | ¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Stoke Bruerne Top Lock No 14 [see navigational note 1 below] | 6 furlongs, 6 locks | ||
| Spice of Bruerne
Indian restaurant
|
a few yards, 1 lock | ||
| Stoke Bruerne and Waterways Museum | a few yards, 0 locks | ||
| The Boat Inn (Stoke Bruerne) | a few yards, 0 locks | ||
| Waterside Café | a few yards, 0 locks | ||
| Bob The Blacksmith | 3 furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Blisworth Tunnel South End
Milepost 20
|
a few yards, 0 locks | ||
| Blisworth Tunnel North End Having passed through Blisworth Tunnel. | 1 mile, 6 furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Gayton Junction
Junction with Grand Union Northampton Branch
|
1 mile, 6¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal – Main Line – Norton to Gayton) | |||
| From Gayton Junction (Junction with Grand Union Northampton Branch) to: | |||
| Gayton Visitor Moorings
14 days moorings
|
¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Wright’s Lane Bridge No 45 | 1 mile, 0 locks | ||
Totals
Total distance is 15 miles, 3¼ furlongs and 8 locks. There are at least 3 small aqueducts or underbridges and 1 tunnel (Blisworth Tunnel. ).
This is made up of 15 miles, 3¼ furlongs of broad canals; 8 broad locks.
This will take 6 hours and 44 minutes.
