UK Canal Maps and our Canal Boating Blog
Our maps are growing fast, we now have 900+ moorings and marinas listed in our first map, and we have also created a new map to the services you need most often like Pump outs, Elsan points, Calor Gas etc.
Click here for the Mooring Map – UK
Click here for the Mooring Map – Scotland
Click here for the Services Map
If you know of a site we are missing, we even have a online form for that, Click here to help us keep everything up to date 🙂
Please take a look and let me know if I have missed anything 🙂
Just got to 820 locations and now working on removing the weird and wonderful places that seem to be in the CRT data, there are a lot of EoG moorings (End of Garden, so I am told) and clearly private or commercial (Boat yards that do not offer mooring etc) that are being removed.
Please feel free to send me sites we have missed I need:- Name of location, address and postcode or Lat/long coordinates, and any other detail you have. emailed to “dfloyd @ floyd.co.uk” (Remove the spaces)
I am working on a new page for our site, it all started by looking for a new marina for next year. We are very happy at Droitwich Spa Marina and would highly recommend it, but we would like to see some more of the canal network.
The new page started as a spreadsheet of potential marina’s, but it was hard to visualise where these were, so I created a google map from my data, that started to look useful so I added a few more locations, I now have hundreds ready to add and over the next few weeks I should have a good guide ready.
Below is a work in progress version and this will update as I add new places, but, you can also find it on our menu above as this blog post will age and not be so visible soon.
UPDATE: Thanks to some feed back from Canal World Forums I now have some data from the CRT and have imported this into my map, I am now editing the data to add street addresses, phone numbers and web sites as I find them. There are over 500 possible mooring sites to update so this will take a while.
If you have any recommendations please let me know I need:- Name of location, address and postcode, contact number and website URL. emailed to “dfloyd @ floyd.co.uk” (Remove the spaces)
Today we went to collect Floydtilla from Black Prince at Stoke Prior, she had been returned to them to have a problem with the roof paint fixed, from what we can see they have stripped off the old paint and reapplied the primer and yellow topcoat, it now all looks beautifully smooth.
We had a lovely sunny day for our trip back to Droitwich Spa Marina, the only problem was the wind whipping across the marina, which made the slab sided canal boat into a sailing pushing us sideways when we tried to approach our mooring, after two attempts going up wind and turning, we decided to reversed past out berth and tried going downwind which made things a lot simpler. We are learning all the time.