Your floating hotel
on the Canals and Rivers of the UK
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Your floating hotel on the Canals and Rivers of the UK
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Our guide to the waterways of the UK in detail.
Pictures of the Bridgewater Canal,
Waters meeting to Castlefields.
The Bridgewater canal was the first true canal to be built in the UK. It is still unique today it's generous dimensions, wide and deep built for Mersey flats, broad beam working boats. It's straight or gently curving route and, now, a total absence of locks and tunnels. It does however have one of the impassive aqueducts.
The canal now starts right in the city centre of Manchester at Castlefields basin, formerly an area of warehouses now very effectively redeveloped into a safe and fascinating area to moor.
For three miles the canal winds out through the city with views of the adjacent Salford Quays of the Manchester Ship Canal and 'Old Trafford', the home of Manchester United while alongside is the latest in Urban transport systems.
This page has pictures of this section of canal.
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| Manchester United's ground beside the canal. | Throstle Nest bridge. | Salford Quays on the Manchester Ship canal. |
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| Castlefields in the heart of Manchester. |
More pictures of this canal?
Preston Brook to Waters Meet / Waters Meet to Leigh. / The Runcorn Branch.
More information from Reed Boats about this canal.
General information / A history of this canal.
Find our information about other canals on the canal index page.
We will not be on this canal in 2008
If you have any questions then do ring us on 07977 229103
or email us at martinreed@reedboats.co.uk
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