WATERWAYS WANDERERS TICKET
British Waterways have implemented a new scheme for 2010, called the Waterways Wanderers Ticket, giving access to hundreds of miles of canal towpaths in England and Wales. Tickets are priced at £20 for Adults 16 - 65, £10 for Senior Citizens, and £5 for Juniors (Under 16 at date of purchase). The Club has has registered with the scheme, which means we get a discounted rate on the Senior ticket to £10. Tickets have to be purchased through the Club, and we can only order them in blocks of 10. Interested Members should send the appropriate fees to the Club Secretary, Barry Simpson, 27 Elmsmere Avenue, Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 3AF, with a stamped addressed envelope if possible, please?
Canals included are as follows:
Grand Union Canal; Grand Union Canal - Paddington Branch; Oxford Canal; Regents Canal; Ashby Canal; Ashton Canal; the Birmingham Canal Network including the Draw End Canal; Main Line Canal; Stourbridge Canal; Tame Valley Canal; Walsall Canaland the Wyrley & Essington Canal; Birmingham & Fazely Canal; Birmingham & Warwick Canal; Coventry Canal; Grand Union Canal; Huddersfield Narrow Canal; Lancaster Canal; Leeds & Liverpool Canal; Llangollen Canal; Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal; Montgomery Canal; Peak Forest Canal; Rochdale Canal; Shropshire Union Canal; Stratford Canal; the Weaver Navigation and the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.
Locally there are stretches of both the Caldon Canal and the Trent & Mersey canal, and below is a more detailed breakdown of those stretches. Some Members who have been with us for a few years may be interested in one of the stretches of the Trent & Mersey, as it is the one at Rode Heath, either side of the Broughton arms Pub, which the Club used to lease some 5 years ago, and was a very productive stretch.
Caldon Canal:
Bridge 2 (Shelton) to Bridge 5 (Hanley Park)
Bridge 6 (Lichfield Street) to Bridge 10 (Bottislow Street)
Bridge 11 (Ivy House Lift Bridge - Ivy House Road by Meakins Sports Ground) to Bridge 45 (1 Bridge past the Boat Inn @ Cheddleton)
This takes in stretches through Bucknall; Abbey Hulton; Milton; Baddeley Green; Stockton Brook; Endon; Consall Forge and Cheddleton
Bridge 54 to Bridge 55 (Froghall Basin)
Caldon Canal Leek Arm:
Hazelhurst Junction (Just before the Hollybush Inn at Denford) to Bridge 6 (Horse Bridge)
This stretch is one of the prettiest stretches of the Caldon Canal
Trent & Mersey Canal:
Lock 25 - Sandon Lock on B5066 (Off the Stone to Rugeley Rd by The Dog & Doublet) to Stoke Bottom Lock - Vernon Road, (By Station Road Bridge)
This stretch takes in the productive stretches through Salt; Burston; Aston; Stone Barlaston; Wedgwoods; Trentham and Stoke, up to the new concrete lock by Station Road Railway Bridge.
Lock 37 (Shelton New Road Bridge- by the Cemetery) to Bridge 11 (A53 Road Bridge at Etruria- by Festival Park Marina)
Bridge 126 (Longport Road Bridge on A527) to Harecastle Tunnel Southern End
Harecastle Tunnel Northern End to Bridge 145 (Hassell Green)
This section takes in the stretches through Kidsgrove, Hardings Wood Junction, Church Lawton, and Rode Heath stretches, (including the stretch by the Broughton Arms, and Thirlwood Locks in Rode Heath, that the Victoria Angling Club used to have on their ticket)
Bridge 156 (Wheelock) to Bridge 158 (Ettiley Heath near Sandbach)
Bridge 160 (Elton Moss Railway Bridge - Elworth) to Bridge 163 (the Bridge before the Salt Works on the Middlewich Road)
