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Steve and Shelley will be cruising the canals again this year in our narrowboat 'Driftway'

Our route, hopefully, will be:-

Kennet and Avon Canal to Reading, the mighty Thames to Oxford, Oxford Canal to Napton junction then onto the Grand Union heading north through Warwick and Birmingham. We shall then join the Shropshire Union Canal and cruising up to the Llangollen Canal into North Wales and across the Pontcysyllte aquaduct to Llangollen then returning to the Shroppie and turning north through Chester and on to Ellesmere Port on the banks of the Mersey where we shall leave the boat for a few days and visit Liverpool (via the ferry 'cross the Mersey) returning to the boat we shall retrace our steps through Chester and then to Middlewich and the Trent and Mersey Canal, north again and onto Englands 1st canal, the Bridgewater, to Manchester, we will then join the Peak Forest Canal to Whaley Bridge follwed by the Macclesfield Canal to join the Trent and Mersey above Stoke on Trent, we shall follow the T & M south to Fradley where we shall turn off to join the Coventry Canal then south to the North Oxford rejoining the South Oxford at Napton then retracing our route home via Oxford again.

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Why 'Driftway' ?

Driftway was my grandparents farmhouse in Yateley, on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders, a driftway was a local term for a drove road where the cattle would be herded between fields.

My mother and 2 aunties where born there before they all moved to Westham nr. Pevensey on the Sussex coast, when my grandparents retired they called their new house 'Driftway' so the name has been in my memory all my life, now that they have all passed on I thought it would be good to remember them in some small way and Driftway has a nautical feel to it conjuring up images of drifting lazily through quiet countrysides........  Steve.