For everyone
14 or 21 Day Trip
In 10/11 days or a
fortnight, you can do one of these longer routes, or simply
take more time to enjoy one of our
One-Week Routes.
And for experienced boaters, we
have the most fantastic
Rings, or our
Adventure Holidays.
Bingley
110 miles 118 locks 55 hours
Sail down the leafy Calder & Hebble Navigation past
Brighouse, and through wide river sections and narrow
cuttings to Wakefield, where there are good moorings not
too far from the bright lights. Then on to Stanley Ferry
to see the famous aqueducts and two very convenient and
contrasting pubs.
You are now on the Aire & Calder,
which is still a thriving commercial waterway, though
there are now many more pleasure boats than barges.
Electric locks and a wide channel help you speed
(relatively) round to Leeds, where you sail past the
regenerated waterfront.
Then join the Leeds &
Liverpool Canal which quickly escapes along its own way
through fields and woods, with spectacular views of old
West Riding industry - particularly Sir Titus Salt's
Italianate mills and model town at Saltaire, with its
Hockney museum. There are several staircase locks along
the way, which culminate in the Five Rise Locks at
Bingley, one of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways.
14 night holidays
Skipton
136 miles 128 locks 70 hours
Go to Bingley - see above.
Carry on along the
hillside, with wide views of Airedale to one side, and
the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park on the
other. Pretty villages and lots of swing bridges - much
easier these days - take you through to Skipton, Gateway
to the Dales. Don't miss the castle! This return journey
needs long days and good timing.