![]() CanalCuttings - Your FREE online-world British Inland Waterways, Narrowboat, River Cruiser, Canal Boat Magazine, Info Source and Britain's & Narrowboat Holiday Guide.Almost 600 Pages of Information and Features about canals and their usage - We're not just a Narrowboat Magazine. The website includes River and Inland Waterways information.Aylesbury Canal Arm - Narrow CanalAylesbury Arm of the Grand Union CanalFrom Marsworth Junction to Aylesbury Basin is around six and a quarter miles and sixteen locks, the Marsworth seven and Aylesbury nine. The canal arm took just three years to build after over fifteen years of 'planning'. The canal takes most of its water from the Grand Union through Marsworth Junction - Aylesbury Canal Locks 1 and 2, the only staircase locks on the southern GUC system. We cruised the Aylesbury Canal Arm as part of our 2008 summer cruise from Staffordshire to London and the south-east. The canal is a narrow canal arm off the Grand Union Canal Main Line. A good days cruise, usually divided in two sections by live-aboards and the more mature amongst us. A few of the locks had severe leaks in the walls and BW request that the lock was left empty with a bottom paddle open. The navigation was almost free of rubbish and loaded with water fowl - a pleasure to see. The landscape is mostly open farmland. We were warned by local boaters of the 'very narrow bridges' but after we had completed the cruise we put this warning down the fact that they normally cruise the wide Grand Union canal. Where we come from all our local canals are narrow and the bridges are just as tight!
Just above lock 16 is a Tesco Supermarket with canalside access.
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