Narrow boat holiday routes in Yorkshire

Out and back holiday routes to Skipton on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal.

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LEEDS & LIVERPOOL CANAL HOLIDAY ROUTES ONE WEEK OUT & BACK HOLIDAYS FROM FOULRIDGE These narrow boat holidays give you the freedom to roam as you please, following one of our suggested routes or your own inclinations. These boats in this section start on Saturday at 2pm and return to Foulridge Saturday 9am. Mileages are for the return trip to Foulridge. Times are for guidance. We also have some rewarding Rings, but none of these can be done in a week. Slideshow of Out & Back routes from Foulridge
GOING EAST 4. Skipton 32 miles 30 locks 20 hours This route winds along the contours on the side of Airedale, with extensive views of sheep country, and stone growing out of the landscape – farmhouses, barns, stone walls in all directions and the occasional village or small town. At Greenberfield, you leave the summit level, and paradoxically pass into the wildest scenery, where you could moor for days with no human contact but the occasional passing boat, walker or cyclist. Across the valley, you may see a boat behind a stone wall, apparently heading in the same direction as you on a parallel canal – only to find that you meet on a hairpin bend, and pass. Then the Bank Newton flight leads you round and down into Gargrave, an unspoilt canal village. From here it’s level all the way to Skipton, with views of the hills and lots of swing bridges. Quite suddenly, you are in Skipton, and can moor right in the centre of town. Explore the castle, cattle and street markets and shops, before turning to head back. 5. Bingley 58 miles 30 locks 30 hours Head for Skipton (Route 19), then carry on along the side of the Aire Valley, with extensive views through the trees. Pass through the romantic village of Kildwick, clinging to the hillside with the canal going placidly through the middle. Silsden is a bigger town, with shops and eating places. Keighley Golf Course has astonishing rhododendrons in May. Moor at Bridge 197A and walk down to East Riddlesden Hall NT, a 17th century manor house with fine garden; or get a bus to Keighley Station, and take the steam train (of Railway Children fame) to Haworth, and walk up the steep hill to the Bronte Parsonage. Turn at the top of the Five Rise. 6. Rodley 78 miles 62 locks 45 hours Follow Route 20, then pass down the Five Rise, the first of several staircases – the most dramatic sort of lock. Soon you arrive in the World Heritage Site of Saltaire, Sir Titus Salt’s Italianate mills and model town founded on the wool of the alpaca. See the streets named after his eleven children, and find his statue in the nearby park. There’s also a splendid display of Hockneys – he is a Bradford lad. Turn after Bridge 218.	GOING WEST 7. Rishton 47 miles 14 locks 20 hours Plunge straight into Foulridge Tunnel, and then drop down Barrowford Locks onto the level you will stay with for 20 miles. Sail above Burnley’s rooftops on its embankment, one of the Seven Wonders of the waterways. Stop to visit the Weavers’ Triangle, full of textile history. Regain more open scenery, and carry on through Church and Rishton. Turn after Bridge 106A. This trip has fairly long urban stretches as well as views of the (Lancashire) Calder valley and Pendle Hill, but is full of industrial history and other interest. 8. Wigan 90 miles 40 locks 40 hours A journey entirely in Lancashire, this is ambitious but rewarding for experienced boaters. After Rishton (Route 22), carry on through Blackburn. At the bottom of Johnson’s Hillock flight you pass a never-completed link to the Lancaster Canal. Carry on along the contour above the River Douglas, till you arrive at the top of Wigan. Take a bus into this interesting town with excellent shops and covered market, but the passage down the flight is for another time....	Foulridge Wharf
		Greenberfield
		Bingley 5 Rise, L&L, Route 8

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Narrow boat holiday routes in Yorkshire

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