Yorkshire Canal Pubs
Canalside pubs and restaurants in Yorkshire
There are pubs and restaurants of every possible sort within easy reach of your boat. From simple locals to gastropubs, via large chain pubs and small ones with first-rate home cooking, each will give you a different experience, a real welcome and great value. Here are just a few of those our customers enjoy. They're not all called the Navigation, the Anchor or the Ship......
Most places don't serve food on Monday nights, and a surprising number of smaller pubs only serve food in the evening at weekends. So it's worth ringing ahead - phone numbers in the cruising guides on board (though the guides are not always up to date).
Sowerby Bridge
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Pub and family restaurant with great food and canal views. |
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The Village, Sowerby Bridge |
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Temujin, Sowerby Bridge Wharf Mongolian restaurants - mix your own and watch it being stir-fried.Milnsbridge branch is also close to the canal. |
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By Chain Bridge, this was an inn long before the canal was built, on the old salt road from Chester to York. Good pub food in friendly local. |
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Gabriels @ The Wharf Imaginative lunches and exotic coffee. |
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The Works, Sowerby Bridge Hollins Mill Lane. Access from town centre. Impressive old factory with many interesting beers and a lively atmosphere. No food. |
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Gimbals, Sowerby Bridge Just outside the basin. Excellent restaurant. |
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The Puzzle Hall, Sowerby Bridge Hollins Mill Lane. Access from town centre. Small pub with loyal following and live music. |
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The Jubilee Refreshment Rooms On the station, a new old-fashioned railway buffet bar. Open early till late. Breakfast, light meals and local ales. |
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Calder & Hebble Navigation
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The Watermill, Salterhebble Popular Brewer's Fayre pub/restaurant. Family room and games area. |
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The Barge and Barrel, Elland On Elland Wharf. Food at lunchtime. Music at weekends. |
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The Richard Oastler, Brighouse JD Wetherspoons in old Methodist chapel. |
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The Old Ship Inn, Brighouse Proper pub with good food. Town Centre, accessible from bridges 9 and 10. |
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The Old Mill, opposite Kirklees Low Lock Across the footbridge below Kirklees Top LockChef & Brewer hotel, pub and restaurant. |
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The Pear Tree, Battyford Good food and beer. Riverside garden. |
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The Navigation, Mirfield Opposite Lidl. Simple pub. |
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The Ship Inn, Shepley Bridge Popular Hungry Horse family pub with food. |
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The Bingley Arms, Horbury Bridge Simple pub. Also nearby, Rialto Italian restaurant. |
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The Navigation, Broad Cut Between Broad Cut Locks.Pub with food. |
Rochdale Canal
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The Old Brandy Wine, Luddenden Foot Pub with adjoining Indian restaurant. |
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Milly's Café Bar & Bistro Sandwiches, light lunches, Sunday Brunches, evening meals (Friday and Saturday), home made cakes..... |
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The Dusty Miller, Mytholmroyd Well-regarded restaurant and pub, highly recommended. |
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The White Lion, Hebden Bridge In the town centre. Good food and pleasant pub atmosphere. |
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The White Swan, Bridge Gate, Hebden Bridge Excellent food, price is right, local focal point. Neighbourhood pub in centre of town. |
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The Fox & Goose, Hebden Bridge On the main road near Lock 10. Real ale enthusiasts' pub. |
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The Stubbing Wharf Canalside, above Lock 11. Good food, pleasant welcome, moorings right outside. |
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The Golden Lion, Todmorden At Fielden Wharf, below Lock 19. |
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Grandma Pollard's, Walsden By Lock 27. Locally famous fish and chips, well worth the journey. |
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The Cross Keys, Walsden By Lock 28. Recommended home cooked pub food. |
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The Summit, Lock 37 Pub with food. Not much changed since this 1875 picture. |
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Aire & Calder Navigation
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The Stanley Ferry, Stanley Ferry Very popular roadhouse, with food. |
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The Boat Inn, Allerton Bywater Miners no longer cross the Aire to this welcoming pub with food. On the river, so don't moor overnight. |
Leeds & Liverpool Canal
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The White Lion, Kildwick Pub with food. |
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The Anchor, Gargrave By Anchor Lock. A very popular road house with food. |
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The Cross Keys, East Marton Pub with first class food. |
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The Anchor, Salterforth Small atmospheric canal pub with food. |
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Café Cargo, Foulridge Open from breakfast till dinner with home cooked local food. Canalside views from super warehouse conversion. Fully licensed. |
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The Inn on the Wharf, Burnley Modern pub in converted warehouse in Weavers' Triangle. |
Huddersfield Narrow Canal
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The Aspley, Huddersfield basin Large modern Brewers Fayre pub and restaurant. |
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Temujin, Milnsbridge Mongolian restaurant - mix your own and watch it being stir-fried. |
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The Sair Inn, Linthwaite One of the most pub-like pubs you'll find. |
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The Olive Branch, Lock 30E A walk across the fields (i.e. up a steep hill) to this highly recommended gastro-pub. |
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The Tunnel End Inn, Marsden Just up from the tunnel mouth, friendly pub with excellent home cooking (order food in advance mid-week). |
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The Diggle Hotel, Diggle Cheerful village pub with good food. |
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The Navigation, Dobcross By lock 24W. Pub with food, ideal for followers of the Saddleworth brass band competition. |
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San Lorenzo, Roaches Above Lock 15W. Authentic southern Italian atmosphere and great food in an old tin tabernacle. |