Canal Associated Links
Shropshire Union Canal Society
The Shropshire Union canal network stretches in the east from the Midlands to the Mersey. In the west it reaches into north and mid Wales via the Llangollen and Montgomery Canals.
Play a role in safeguarding this beautiful community asset. For over 50 years the Shropshire Union Canal Society has worked to maintain, improve and restore it. We are open and welcoming and always looking for new people to get involved.
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https://shropshireunion.org.uk/
Saturn Fly-Boat
Saturn is the only remaining Shropshire Union fly-boat. She was built at Chester in 1906, made of Oak and Elm. She was first used to carry cheese and farm produce.
The fly-boats ran a timetabled horse-drawn express delivery service. They connected Ellesmere Port, Mid and North Wales, Manchester, Birmingham, Cheshire, Shropshire and the Potteries.
Saturn worked as a horse-drawn cargo boat until 1955 and was then converted to a cruising hotel boat, taking passengers of canal holidays.
Saturn Fly-Boat is an educational and heritage charity, run entirely by volunteers. Saturn travels the canals for school visits and public events.
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The Lyneal Trust
Lyneal Trust offers canal boat and cottage holidays and canal day trips in beautiful Shropshire for people with disabilities, illness or injury, or any other vulnerability and their family, friends and carers who may accompany them.
The Llangollen Canal weaves backwards and forwards across the Shropshire and Cheshire borders through some of the finest scenery in the country and over the World Heritage Site aqueducts at Chirk and Pontcysylite to Llangollen in North Wales. Three miles from Ellesmere and at the heart of the Meres district of North Shropshire, lies Lyneal Wharf, the ideal base for the start of your perfect canal boat and cottage holidays.
Lyneal Trust can offer day trips, or full week holidays to accommodate most requirements for those important breaks. Our canal boats, as well as the cottages, are well suited to cater for people with disabilities, illness or injury, or any other vulnerability and their family, friends and carers who may accompany them, to provide a lovely holiday or day out in the beautiful Shropshire countryside.
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Chamberlain Carrying Co.
Ruth & Richard Chamberlain of Chamberlain Carrying Co took over the newly renovated chandlery at Venetian Marine in May 2024.
Ruth & Richard are well known in the area as they have lived aboard their boats for many years and supply the local canals with coal, diesel, gas & sundries from their four historic Admiral Class boats Mountbatten & Jellicoe and Lindsay & Keppel.
Website: www.chamberlaincarryingco.co.uk
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 07946 239778