Canal Companions – serie

Revised and updated for 2021. The Canal Companions have been chugging along the 'cut' for thirty years; conveying facts and figures, insights and entertainment, wit and wisdom: from Brentford to Burscough, from Shardlow to Sharpness, from Tipton to Todmorden. All manner of folk have been encouraged to explore inland waterways using these guides, which have become as much a part of tradition as their subject matter. This 3rd edition, updated in 2021, focusses on the Kennet & Avon, linking Bristol with Reading, and the River Thames between Oxford and Brentford, expertly interpreted to inspire you, on foot, afloat or by bicycle. Michael Pearson has been the author for more than 30 years of this well known series and also the 'Iron Roads' series, plus 'Railway Holiday in Scotland', 'Coming up with the Goods', 'Me, My Morgan & the Midlands' and Journeys into Staffordshire'.

Revised 2022 edition. This companion recaptures the north for Pearson's, exploring the Calder & Hebble, Aire & Calder and Leeds & Liverpool. Featuring for the first time the deservedly popular 'Liverpool Link', and the river Aire and Selby canal. Over 200 miles of characterful inland waterways expertly interpreted to inspire discovery, on foot, afloat or by bicycle. * The Leeds & Liverpool Canal - Leeds to Liverpool and the Liverpool Link * The Ribble Link - Tarleton to Preston * The Aire & Calder Navigation - Leeds to Wakefield and Goole * Calder & Hebble Navigation - Sowerby Bridge to Wakefield * River Aire & Selby Canal - Knottingley to Selby Key places featured include Sowerby Bridge, Wakefield, Castleford, Selby, Goole, Leeds, Bingley, Skipton, Burnley, Blackburn, Wigan, Leigh, Burscough and Liverpool. The Canal Companions have been chugging along 'the cut' for over thirty years; conveying facts and figures, insight and entertainment, wit and wisdom: from Brentford to Burscough, from Shardlow to Sharpness, from Tipton to Todmorden. All manner of folk have been encouraged to explore the inland waterways using these guides, which have become as much a part of tradition as their subject matter. Michael Pearson has been the author for more than thirty years of this well known series and also the 'Iron Roads' series, plus 'Railway Holiday in Scotland', 'Coming up with the Goods', 'Me, My Morgan & the Midlands' and 'Journeys into Staffordshire'.

COVERAGE: River Severn (Worcester-Stourport); Staffs & Worcs Canal (Stourport to Great Haywood): BCN Main Line (Aldersley to Birmingham); Worcs & Birmingham Canal (Birmingham to Worcester); Birmingham & Fazeley Canal (Birmingham-Fazeley); Coventry Canal (Fazeley- Fradley); Trent & Mersey canal (Fradley-Great Haywood); Stourbridge & Dudley Canals (Stourton-Netherton); BCN Northern Waters (Wolverhampton-Walsall-Brownhills etc) STOURPORT RING 9th Edition: The new ninth edition of the Stourport & Black Country Rings/Birmingham Canal Navigations Canal Companion marks a step-change in format. Page count has increased from 96 pages to 160 pages, maps from 41 to 48 and photographs from 65 to 153. THE CANAL COMPANIONS: A good guidebook should fulfil three functions: encourage you to go; explain the lie of the land when you're there; and provide a lasting souvenir of your journeys. The Canal Companions tick all three boxes - and more besides. 76 editions have been published to date, amassing sales in excess of half a million books.

This 8th edition of the Severn & Avon Companion is increased from 96 pages to 160 pages and features a square-backed spine with sewn sections for added durability. COVERAGE: Includes the River Avon from Tewkesbury to Stratford; the Stratford-on-Avon Canal; the Worcester & Birmingham Canal; the Droitwich Canals; the River Severn from Stourport to Gloucester; the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal; the Cotswold Canals from Framilode to Lechlade; and the Grand Union Canal between Birmingham and Braunston. THE CANAL COMPANIONS: A good guidebook should fulfil three functions: encourage you to go; explain the lie of the land when you're there; and provide a lasting souvenir of your journeys. The Canal Companions tick all three boxes - and more besides. 77 editions have been published to date, amassing sales in excess of half a million books. THE AUTHOR: Topography has been Michael Pearson's lifelong passion and he has been compiling guidebooks professionally for forty years. He does all the research, writing, cartography and photography personally, so Canal Companion users can rely on an eyewitness account of the routes covered in each guide.

Thoroughly revised, with all new photographs, this latest edition of a guide first published in 1983 has been increased in size from 112 pages to 128 pages and features a squarebacked spine with sewn sections for added durability. Featuring the popular 'Warwickshire Ring' cruising circuit, this guide includes coverage of the Grand Union Canal between Stoke Bruerne and Birmingham, the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, the Coventry Canal, the Oxford Canal between Hawkesbury and Napton, the Ashby Canal, the Stratford on Avon Canal, and the Worcester & Birmingham Canal between Tardebigge and Birmingham.

The Ninth Edition of the Oxford & Grand Union Canal Companion has been extended to an unprecedented 176 pages. Routes covered include the hugeley picturesque and justifiably popular Oxford Canal between Hawkesbury Junction (on the outskirts of Coventry) and the University City of Oxford; the whole of the Grand Union Canal from Birmingham to London (Brentford/Paddington) including its branches to Northampton, Aylesbury, Wendover (under restoration) and Slough; the Regent's Canal (with large scale mapping to do justice to central London) between Paddington and Limehouse; and the complete Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal, including the arms to Welford and Market Harborough. Solely the Upper Thames between Lechlade and Oxford has been sacrificed to make space for this increased route coverage, and that will be included in a forthcoming edition of the Kennet & Avon/Thames Canal Companion.