Summary
This is a trip of 16 miles, 5¼ furlongs and 11 locks from Stoke Heath Basin to Grendon Wharf Long Term Moorings.
This will take 8 hours and 35 minutes which is 1 day, 1 hour and 35 minutes at 7 hours per day.
From Stoke Heath Basin travel north on the Coventry Canal (Main Line – Coventry to Hawkesbury) for 3 miles, 4 furlongs to Hawkesbury Junction, then travel northwest on the Coventry Canal (Main Line – Hawkesbury to Fazeley) for 13 miles, 1¼ furlongs and 11 locks to Grendon Wharf Long Term Moorings.
Route
| Coventry Canal (Main Line – Coventry to Hawkesbury) | |||
| From Stoke Heath Basin to: | |||
| Exhall Basin [see navigational note 1 below] Having passed through Heath Crescent Tunnel. | 3 miles, 2¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Hawkesbury Junction
Junction of the Coventry Canal Main Line with the Oxford Canal Northern Section.
|
1¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Coventry Canal (Main Line – Hawkesbury to Fazeley) | |||
| From Hawkesbury Junction (Junction of the Coventry Canal Main Line with the Oxford Canal Northern Section.) to: | |||
| Hawkesbury Engine House
Also known as Hawkesbury Pumping Station
|
½ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Bedworth Winding Hole
Site of the junction with the Newdigate Colliery Arm (disused)
|
6¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Bedworth Hill Bridge No 13
Half a mile walk to Bedworth. @Coalpit Fields Road, Bedworth, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
|
a few yards, 0 locks | ||
| Marston Bridge No 15
Marston Lane
|
1 mile, 6¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Marston Junction
Junction of Ashby and Coventry Canals
|
½ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Nuneaton to Bedworth Railway Bridge | 1 mile, 7¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Nuneaton Visitor Moorings | ¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Boot Bridge No 20
Nuneaton Town centre northeast from here
|
¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Wash Lane Winding Hole | 6 furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Tuttle Hill Bridge No 23
Nuneaton Town centre south from here. @Tuttle Hill / Midland Road, Nuneaton, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom (B4114)
|
5¼ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Judds Quarry Railway Bridge (disused)
Connected with Judds Quarry
|
½ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Springwood Haven Marina | 1 mile, ¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Hartshill Wharf and BW Yard | 1 mile, 2¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Mancetter Bridge No 36
Mancetter village half a mile east. Quarry Lane
|
1 mile, ¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Atherstone Visitor Moorings | 7 furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Atherstone Top Lock No 1 | 1 furlong, 0 locks | ||
| Watling Street Bridge No 43
@Merevale Road, Atherstone, North Warwickshire, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Having passed through Atherstone Locks. |
2¾ furlongs, 5 locks | ||
| A5 (Watling Street) Road Bridge
A5
|
¾ furlongs, 0 locks | ||
| Atherstone Bottom Lock No 11 | 1 mile, 3¾ furlongs, 5 locks | ||
| Grendon Wharf Long Term Moorings
Permit holders only. @Green Lane, North Warwickshire, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
|
3 furlongs, 1 lock | ||
Totals
Total distance is 16 miles, 5¼ furlongs and 11 locks Today’s travel includes at least 1 tunnel (Heath Crescent Tunnel. ).
This is made up of 16 miles, 5¼ furlongs of narrow canals; 11 narrow locks.
This will take 8 hours, 35 minutes which is 1 day, 1 hour and 35 minutes at 7 hours per day. For initial calculation purposes (before adjusting for such things as overnight stops) this is taken as 1 day of 8 hours and 35 minutes.
