2019 Boat Plan

The oxford canal is a 78-mile (126 km) narrow canal in central england linking oxford with bedworth (between coventry and nuneaton on the coventry canal) via banbury and rugby.. Ideas for canal boat holidays & canal boat hire basingstoke canal (connects at shepperton via the wey navigation) researched and written by jeannette briggs. the basingstoke canal was constructed in the 1770s, and was intended as a means of carrying agricultural produce from the hampshire/surrey areas to the markets in london.. The oxford canal provided a direct link with london via the thames, and for several years was hugely profitable. the arrival of the grand junction canal, linking braunston to london and later becoming the backbone of the grand union canal , finally broke its stranglehold and effectively bypassed the southern half of the oxford canal..

Routes - rose narrowboats

Central england boat holidays | midland canals | city

Narrowboating in great britain - paper pencil write-up

Routes from oxford can continue onto the river thames towards lechlade or london (see river thames guide). possible holidays on the oxford canal click on a boat base below for more information and possible routes from that base.. Canal holidays guide to the london circuit base 50 near reading is west of london, from here you can go east along the canal to little venice, regents park and london zoo. use your floating hotel to visit big ben, buckingham palace, see a show and all the sights.. The canal continues in rolling countryside with few locks to milton keynes new town, then through the chiltern hills to meet the river thames at brentford lock in west london. the paddington arm leaves shortly before, and forms part of the london ring through central london, little venice and camden lock..

canal boat oxford to london