Canal Holidays Guide to the Leeds-Liverpool Canal
 The
Yorkshire Dales
The
longest single canal in Britain and yet the least crowded,
this canal is noted for its Yorkshire Dales scenery and famous
canal landmarks such as the Bingley Five Rise locks. A
one week holiday includes the best rural parts of the canal
across the Pennines.
 Distance,
Time, and Locks
68 miles, about 40 hours cruising, 52
locks. A week allows ample time to cover the central section of
the Leeds-Liverpool Canal around the historic market town of Skipton, ‘Gateway
to the Yorkshire Dales’.
Cruising
the Canal
Travel west
from our Bases in the Skipton area and pass through the beautiful
and dramatic scenery of the Dales countryside with its rugged moorland,
limestone caves and gorges.
 Turn
at Foulridge and return past Skipton, with its 900 year old
castle and ancient street market, towards the Bronte country
around Keighley.
Take
a steam train along the ‘Railway Children’ line to Haworth and
its Parsonage, home of the Bronte sisters. Further east along
the canal reach Bingley Five Rise, a staircase of 5 locks lifting
the canal 60 feet from the Aire valley. If time permits, cruise
to Saltaire, the Victorian village built by Sir Titus Salt for
his workers, and visit the David Hockney exhibition in the former
Salt’s Mill.
In
a more energetic week it may be possible to cruise as far as
the thriving city of Leeds, mooring outside the new Royal Armouries
attraction.
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