This is a trip of 67.29 miles and 34 locks from Gayton Marina to Gayton Marina.

This will take 28 hours and 54 minutes which is 7 hours and 18 minutes for each of 3 days plus 6 hours on the first evening and 1 hour on the last morning.

From Gayton Marina travel southwest on the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch) for 0.24 miles to Gayton Junction ;
 southeast on the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford) for 33.40 miles and 17 locks to Slapton Winding Hole ;
 northwest on the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford) for 33.40 miles and 17 locks to Gayton Junction ;
 and northeast on the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch) for 0.24 miles to Gayton Marina .

Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch)
From Gayton Marina      (Also known as ‘Alvechurch Boat Centre - Gayton’) to:
	Milton Road Bridge No 2 Gayton. Also known as ‘Arm End Bridge’	0.14 miles, 0 locks
	Gayton Junction  Junction with Grand Union Northampton Branch	0.10 miles, 0 locks
Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford)
From Gayton Junction  (Junction with Grand Union Northampton Branch) to:
	Blisworth Tunnel (northern entrance)  [see navigational note 1]	1.77 miles, 0 locks
	Blisworth Tunnel (southern entrance) Having passed through Blisworth Tunnel (3056 yards long)	1.74 miles, 0 locks
	Bob The Blacksmith	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	Waterside Café	0.37 miles, 0 locks
	The Boat Inn (Stoke Bruerne)	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Waterways Museum	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	Spice of Bruerne  Indian restaurant	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Top Lock No 14	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Visitor Moorings (between Locks)	0.22 miles, 2 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Bottom Lock No 20	0.53 miles, 4 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Services     Also known as ‘Stoke Bruerne Sanitary Station’	0.04 miles, 1 lock
	Thrupp Wharf Marina  Site of Castlethorpe Wharf	4.64 miles, 0 locks
	Castlethorpe Wharf Bridge No 64  Castlethorpe village is three-quarters of a mile north east. Stop here overnight.	0.05 miles, 0 locks
	The Barley Mow PH (Cosgrove)	0.81 miles, 0 locks
	Junction with Old Stratford Arm	0.29 miles, 0 locks
	Winding Hole below Cosgrove Lock	0.04 miles, 1 lock
	Cosgrove Visitor Moorings  14 day moorings	0.06 miles, 0 locks
	Wolverton Aqueduct Also known as ‘Great Ouse Aqueduct, Iron Trunk & Cosgrove’	0.29 miles, 0 locks
	Galleon Wharf   Also known as ‘Old Wolverton Wharf’	0.35 miles, 0 locks
	The Galleon PH	0.06 miles, 0 locks
	Wolverton Railway Bridge No 71A	1.15 miles, 0 locks
	New Bradwell Aqueduct Crosses Grafton Street. Also known as ‘V6 Aqueduct’	0.49 miles, 0 locks
	New Bradwell Footbridge No 71B	0.06 miles, 0 locks
	The Black Horse PH (Great Linford)	1.81 miles, 0 locks
	Great Linford Railway Bridge No 76A (disused)	0.09 miles, 0 locks
	Linford Manor Park Visitor Mooring  48 hour mooring	0.31 miles, 0 locks
	Giffard Park Moorings     7 day moorings	0.47 miles, 0 locks
	Bridge No 78B (Grand Junction Canal)	0.42 miles, 0 locks
	Campbell Park Visitor Moorings	1.66 miles, 0 locks
	Blue Bridge Winding Hole	0.26 miles, 0 locks
	Little Woolstone Bridge No 83  Little Woolstone a quarter of a mile east. Also known as ‘Little Woolstone’, ‘Redway Bridge No 83’	0.37 miles, 0 locks
	Peartree Bridge No 88	0.90 miles, 0 locks
	Milton Keynes Marina    Also known as ‘Peartree Marina’	0.08 miles, 0 locks
	The Green Bridge No 89	0.06 miles, 0 locks
	The Plough PH (Milton Keynes)	0.80 miles, 0 locks
	Simpson Bridge No 92 With pipe bridge alongside	0.36 miles, 0 locks
	Bridge No 93 (Grand Junction Canal)	0.20 miles, 0 locks
	Skew Bridge No 94       [see navigational note 2] Aka White Hart Inn Bridge named after pub that was originally on the offside. Also known as ‘White Hart’	0.41 miles, 0 locks
	Hammonds Bridge No 97	0.78 miles, 1 lock
	Willowbridge Bridge No 99 Also known as ‘Waterhall Bridge 99’	1.17 miles, 0 locks
	Soulbury Three Locks Moorings (below Locks)	2.31 miles, 1 lock
	Soulbury Bottom Lock No 24	0.09 miles, 0 locks
	Soulbury Top Lock No 26 Also known as ‘Three Locks Bridge No 107’ Having passed through Soulbury Three Locks (rise of 20 feet and 3 inches)	0.11 miles, 2 locks
	Soulbury Three Locks Moorings (above Locks)	0.09 miles, 1 lock
	Old Linslade Winding Hole	1.49 miles, 0 locks
	Leighton Buzzard Bridge No 114	2.33 miles, 1 lock
	Grove Lock No 28  Stop here overnight.	1.41 miles, 0 locks
	Grove Lock Marina	0.04 miles, 1 lock
	Slapton Winding Hole	2.35 miles, 2 locks
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	Grove Lock Marina	2.35 miles, 2 locks
	Leighton Buzzard Bridge No 114	1.45 miles, 1 lock
	Old Linslade Winding Hole	2.33 miles, 1 lock
	Soulbury Three Locks Moorings (above Locks)	1.49 miles, 0 locks
	Soulbury Top Lock No 26 Also known as ‘Three Locks Bridge No 107’	0.09 miles, 0 locks
	Soulbury Bottom Lock No 24  Having passed through Soulbury Three Locks (rise of 20 feet and 3 inches)	0.11 miles, 2 locks
	Soulbury Three Locks Moorings (below Locks)	0.09 miles, 1 lock
	Willowbridge Bridge No 99 Also known as ‘Waterhall Bridge 99’	2.31 miles, 1 lock
	Hammonds Bridge No 97	1.17 miles, 0 locks
	Skew Bridge No 94       [see navigational note 2] Aka White Hart Inn Bridge named after pub that was originally on the offside. Also known as ‘White Hart’	0.78 miles, 1 lock
	Bridge No 93 (Grand Junction Canal)	0.41 miles, 0 locks
	Simpson Bridge No 92 With pipe bridge alongside	0.20 miles, 0 locks
	The Plough PH (Milton Keynes)	0.36 miles, 0 locks
	Groveway Bridge No 90C    Stop here overnight.	0.11 miles, 0 locks
	The Green Bridge No 89	0.69 miles, 0 locks
	Milton Keynes Marina    Also known as ‘Peartree Marina’	0.06 miles, 0 locks
	Peartree Bridge No 88	0.08 miles, 0 locks
	Little Woolstone Bridge No 83  Little Woolstone a quarter of a mile east. Also known as ‘Little Woolstone’, ‘Redway Bridge No 83’	0.90 miles, 0 locks
	Blue Bridge Winding Hole	0.37 miles, 0 locks
	Campbell Park Visitor Moorings	0.26 miles, 0 locks
	Bridge No 78B (Grand Junction Canal)	1.66 miles, 0 locks
	Giffard Park Moorings     7 day moorings	0.42 miles, 0 locks
	Linford Manor Park Visitor Mooring  48 hour mooring	0.47 miles, 0 locks
	Great Linford Railway Bridge No 76A (disused)	0.31 miles, 0 locks
	The Black Horse PH (Great Linford)	0.09 miles, 0 locks
	New Bradwell Footbridge No 71B	1.81 miles, 0 locks
	New Bradwell Aqueduct Crosses Grafton Street. Also known as ‘V6 Aqueduct’	0.06 miles, 0 locks
	Wolverton Railway Bridge No 71A	0.49 miles, 0 locks
	The Galleon PH	1.15 miles, 0 locks
	Galleon Wharf   Also known as ‘Old Wolverton Wharf’	0.06 miles, 0 locks
	Wolverton Aqueduct Also known as ‘Great Ouse Aqueduct, Iron Trunk & Cosgrove’	0.35 miles, 0 locks
	Cosgrove Visitor Moorings  14 day moorings	0.29 miles, 0 locks
	Winding Hole below Cosgrove Lock	0.06 miles, 0 locks
	Junction with Old Stratford Arm	0.04 miles, 1 lock
	The Barley Mow PH (Cosgrove)	0.29 miles, 0 locks
	Castlethorpe Wharf Bridge No 64  Castlethorpe village is three-quarters of a mile north east.	0.81 miles, 0 locks
	Thrupp Wharf Marina  Site of Castlethorpe Wharf	0.05 miles, 0 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Services     Also known as ‘Stoke Bruerne Sanitary Station’	4.64 miles, 0 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Bottom Lock No 20	0.04 miles, 0 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Visitor Moorings (between Locks)	0.53 miles, 5 locks
	Stoke Bruerne Top Lock No 14	0.22 miles, 1 lock
	Spice of Bruerne  Indian restaurant	0.01 miles, 1 lock
	Stoke Bruerne Waterways Museum	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	The Boat Inn (Stoke Bruerne)	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	Waterside Café	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	Bob The Blacksmith	0.37 miles, 0 locks
	Blisworth Tunnel (southern entrance)	0.01 miles, 0 locks
	Blisworth Tunnel (northern entrance)  [see navigational note 1] Having passed through Blisworth Tunnel (3056 yards long)	1.74 miles, 0 locks
	Gayton Junction  Junction with Grand Union Northampton Branch	1.77 miles, 0 locks
Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch)
From Gayton Junction  (Junction with Grand Union Northampton Branch) to:
	Milton Road Bridge No 2 Gayton. Also known as ‘Arm End Bridge’	0.10 miles, 0 locks
	Gayton Marina      Also known as ‘Alvechurch Boat Centre - Gayton’	0.14 miles, 0 locks

Turning places in route

Slapton Winding Hole

You can wind here.

 Recalculate  Route editor

Total distance is 67.29 miles and 34 locks . There are 12 small aqueducts or underbridges and 2 tunnels (Blisworth Tunnel (3056 yards long)) – a total of 3.47 miles underground.

This is made up of 0.48 miles of narrow canals; 66.80 miles of broad canals; 34 broad locks.

This will take 28 hours, 54 minutes. You have asked for it to be done in 3 days, each of which will be 7 hours and 18 minutes.

This is calculated based on 6 hours travelling before the first overnight stop, 3 full days travelling and 1 hour travelling on the last day.

Travel starts on Monday the 3rd of June, 2013 at Gayton Marina.

On average each full day will be approximately 7 hours and 18 minutes travelling but you have set some places as overnight stops and this has affected the lengths of the days. The shortest day is 7 hours and 17 minutes and the longest is 8 hours and 13 minutes (the maximum day-length is set at 9 hours).

Monday the 3rd of June, 2013 [Partial first day of trip] (sunrise is 4:47 AM, sunset is 9:16 PM)

On the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford), at Castlethorpe Wharf Bridge No 64 (as instructed). This is 0.24 miles of narrow canals, and 9.40 miles and 7 locks of broad canals; a total of 9.64 miles and 7 locks and will take 4 hours 44 minutes. Today's journey involves 1 tunnel.
Mooring here is good (a nice place to moor). mooring for two boats opposite the Navigation Inn with hard edge and rings.

Tuesday the 4th of June, 2013 [First full day of trip] (sunrise is 4:46 AM, sunset is 9:15 PM)

On the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford), at Grove Lock No 28 (as instructed). This is 21.61 miles and 7 locks of broad canals and will take 8 hours 14 minutes. Today's journey involves 6 small aqueducts or underbridges.
Mooring here is unrated (no information available). The nearest known good moorings are Grovebury Road Footbridge No 115C (0.59 miles earlier) and Church Lock Bridge No 116 (0.52 miles and 1 lock further on).  

Wednesday the 5th of June, 2013 [Second full day of trip] (sunrise is 4:45 AM, sunset is 9:17 PM)

On the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford), at Groveway Bridge No 90C (as instructed). This is 15.66 miles and 12 locks of broad canals and will take 7 hours 39 minutes. Today's journey involves 3 small aqueducts or underbridges.
Mooring here is unrated (no information available). The nearest known good moorings are Fenny Stratford Visitor Moorings (1.18 miles earlier) and The Peartree Bridge Inn (0.77 miles further on).  

Thursday the 6th of June, 2013 [Third full day of trip] (sunrise is 4:45 AM, sunset is 9:19 PM)

On the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford), at Blisworth Tunnel (southern entrance). This is 16.63 miles and 8 locks of broad canals and will take 7 hours 17 minutes. Today's journey involves 3 small aqueducts or underbridges.
Mooring here is unrated (no information available). The nearest known good moorings are Stoke Bruerne Visitor Moorings (0.30 miles earlier) and Blisworth Tunnel (northern entrance) (1.74 miles further on).  

Friday the 7th of June, 2013 [Last morning of trip] (sunrise is 4:44 AM, sunset is 9:21 PM)

On the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch), at Gayton Marina. This is 0.24 miles of narrow canals, and 3.50 miles of broad canals; a total of 3.74 miles and will take 1 hour. Today's journey involves 1 tunnel. You will pass through Blisworth Tunnel (3056 yards long).
Mooring here is unrated (no information available). The nearest known good moorings are Gayton Junction (0.24 miles earlier).  

Waterway Guides Relevant to This Trip

Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides No 1 - Grand Union, Oxford & the South East

Covers the whole trip

Pearson's Canal Companions: Oxford & Grand Union; Upper Thames

Covers the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford) from Gayton Junction to Gayton Junction

The River Nene

Covers the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch) from Gayton Marina to Gayton Junction; and the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch) from Gayton Junction to Gayton Marina

Waterway Maps Relevant to This Trip

River Nene: With the Nene-Ouse Link, Peterborough to March (Inland Waterways of Britain)

Covers the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch) from Gayton Marina to Gayton Junction; and the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch) from Gayton Junction to Gayton Marina

Waterway Routes 01M - England and Wales Map

Covers the whole trip

Waterway Routes 50M - Grand Union Canal (All) Map (Downloadable)

Covers the whole trip

Waterway Routes 51M - Grand Union Canal (North) Map (Downloadable)

Covers the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch) from Gayton Marina to Gayton Junction; and the Grand Union Canal (Northampton Branch) from Gayton Junction to Gayton Marina

Waterway Routes 52M - Grand Union Canal (South) Map (Downloadable)

Covers the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Gayton to Brentford) from Gayton Junction to Gayton Junction