Planning a One-Day Walk Covering the Grantham Canal’s Best Highlights requires a little realism: the waterway stretches for about 33 miles (53 kilometres),…
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Planning a One-Day Walk Covering the Grantham Canal’s Best Highlights
Spring Birdwatching Along the Grantham Canal
When spring reaches the Grantham Canal, the waterway becomes a migration corridor as well as a historic route through the English countryside. Warblers arrive…
A Guide To The Grantham Canal’s Historic Canal-Side Workshops And Forges
The Grantham Canal is often described through its locks, towpath and quiet countryside, yet its working history is just as compelling. From the late eighteenth…
Grantham Canal Footpath Diversions and Permissive Paths
The Grantham Canal stretches through the rolling countryside of the East Midlands, offering walkers more than thirty miles of towpath, woodland, and quiet…
Low bridges and widebeam handling on the Grantham Canal
Handling a widebeam boat beneath a low bridge on the Grantham Canal requires more than judging the gap from the helm. The boat’s air draft, water level, roof…
Edible and inedible hedgerow berries on the Grantham Canal
Autumn turns the towpath of the Grantham Canal into a slow-moving conveyor belt of colour. Hawthorns hang heavy with crimson clusters, elders droop under their…
Gazing at Stars from Quiet Spots Along the Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal winds quietly through the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire countryside, far enough from the glare of major towns to offer genuinely dark…
The Grantham Canal’s cargo story from coal to fertiliser
The Grantham Canal is often pictured as a peaceful green corridor through Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, with narrowboats, towpaths, lock chambers and…
Walking the Grantham Canal: A Guide to Waymarked Routes
Stretching for 33 miles through the gentle landscapes of Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, the Grantham Canal offers walkers a tranquil corridor through the…
Wildflowers And Grasses Along The Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal crosses a gentle belt of English countryside between the River Trent near Nottingham and Grantham in Lincolnshire. Along its towpath, the…