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Our guide to the waterways of the UK in detail.

Pictures of the Shropshire Union Canal,

Chester to Ellesmere.

The Shropshire Union canal as we now it is composed of parts of all three of the four companies which came together as the Shropshire Union. However other sections still exist but are now called the Llangollen canal and the Montgomery canal. What we now as the Shropshire Union is a canal reaching for sixty-six miles through forty-seven locks, some narrow some broad, from the outskirts of Wolverhampton past Nantwich and Chester to the Mersey estuary at Ellsemere Port opposite Liverpool.

Most boaters terminate their cruise at Chester. The Shropshire Union however continues for another eight miles across the Wiral on the level till at Ellesmere Port it meets the River Mersey. Here was one of the great canal ports. Today it is in use as The Boat Museum.

Tower wharf Chester crowded with historic working craft on their way to Ellesemere Port.	Ellsemere Port now the location for a waterways museum.

More pictures of this canal?

Autherly to Norbury / Norbury to Nantwich / Barbridge to Chester / Middlewich branch.

General information on the canal.

The History of the canal

The Chester canal / The Liverpool & Birmingham Junction. / The Shropshire Union.

Find our information about other canals and rivers on the canal index page.

We will not be on this part of the canal in 2008

If you have any questions then do ring us on 07977 229103
or email us at martinreed@reedboats.co.uk