From Rodley Water Pipe Crossing Bridge to Milking Hall Swing Bridge No 184, a distance of 19 miles, 4¼ flg and 16 locks. Start : Rodley Water Pipe Crossing Bridge Finish : Milking Hall Swing Bridge No 184 Back up the Bingley locks, harder work going this way. Moored near Kildwick. Weather slightly warmer.
From Kirkstall Pipe Bridge to Rodley Water Pipe Crossing Bridge, a distance of 8 miles, 4¾ flg and 20 locks. Turn Round Here : River Aire Junction Start : Kirkstall Pipe Bridge Finish : Rodley Water Pipe Crossing Bridge On to Leeds. Worked Locks with Pennine Explorer from Coles Morton Wigan. Shopped in Leeds. Boys […]
From Milking Hall Swing Bridge No 184 to Kirkstall Pipe Bridge, a distance of 21 miles, 5½ flg and 22 locks. Start : Milking Hall Swing Bridge No 184 Finish : Kirkstall Pipe Bridge Lots of tricky swing bridges. Watered and souped at top of Bingley Five Rise. Worked our way down with very helpful […]
From Site of Former Railway Bridge No 151B to Milking Hall Swing Bridge No 184, a distance of 17 miles, 7 flg and 15 locks. Start : Site of Former Railway Bridge No 151B Finish : Milking Hall Swing Bridge No 184 Down Greenberfield Locks and Bank Newton . Reached Skipton and had evening meal […]
From Burnley Wharf to Site of Former Railway Bridge No 151B, a distance of 11 miles, 4¼ flg and 7 locks. Start : Burnley Wharf Finish : Site of Former Railway Bridge No 151B Shopped and played games while waiting for engineer for our leak. Off at 4:00. Up Barrowford and watered. Through Foulridge Tunnel. […]
From Walton Summit Branch Junction to Burnley Wharf, a distance of 26 miles, 2½ flg and 13 locks. Start : Walton Summit Branch Junction Finish : Burnley Wharf Lovely scenery. Shopped at Fenniscowles. Chip shop dinner. On through Blackburn to Burnley. Discovered small fuel leak. Moored for night then very heavy rain.
From Trencherfield Mill Arm to Walton Summit Branch Junction, a distance of 11 miles, 4 flg and 23 locks. Start : Trencherfield Mill Arm Finish : Walton Summit Branch Junction Bought own windlass. Carl joined us at Britannia Bridge No 53 and worked up Wigan Flight with us. Left as at New Springs. On to […]
From Lymm Visitor Moorings to Trencherfield Mill Arm, a distance of 29 miles, 1¾ flg and 4 locks. Start : Lymm Visitor Moorings Finish : Trencherfield Mill Arm Anglers everywhere. Slowly past Lyme Boating Club, très posh, they think. Difficult to find water point. Eventually managed at Plank Lane Bridge No 8 . Moored for […]
From Anderton Marina to Lymm Visitor Moorings, a distance of 17 miles, 5 flg and 1 lock. Start : Anderton Marina Finish : Lymm Visitor Moorings Left Anderton at 3.25 and went through Barnton Tunnel and Saltersford Tunnel. Had to wait until 6p.m to.be able to go north through Preston Brook Tunnel. Moored for night […]
Our second boating holiday was a bit more adventurous – a two week holiday to Leeds and back. Turn Round Here : Trencherfield Mill Arm Turn Round Here : River Aire Junction Start / Finish : Anderton Marina Overnight at : Lymm Visitor Moorings Overnight at : Trencherfield Mill Arm Overnight at : Walton Summit […]