Shropshire Union Canal (Llangollen Canal - Main Line)

There is a significant flow from Llangollen to the top of Hurleston Locks as the canal is used for transporting drinking water from the Dee to Hurleston reservoir.

This has a noticeable effect on travel and is particularly noticeable when passing through the tunnels and bridges. This flow is taken into account in route planning, meaning that times upstream are slightly longer than the equivalent times downstream.

 Llangollen Motor Museum - Llangollen Motor Museum is a fun day out for the enthusiast and family alike. — associated with Llangollen Motor Museum

 Sun Trevor PH — associated with The Sun Trevor PH & Restaurant

Public House

 Welcome to the Swan | The Swan — associated with Marbury Lock No 10

 Wrenbury Mill Marina — associated with Wrenbury Mill Boatyard

Wrenbury Mill Marina

 The Jack Mytton Inn — associated with The Jack Mytton Inn (closed)

Public House

 Dusty Miller PH — associated with Dusty Miller PH

Public House

  Whittington Wharf Narrowboats| Llangollen Canal Holiday Boat Hire  — associated with Whittington Wharf Narrowboats

We are a friendly, family run Canal Boat Holiday hire company based on the Llangollen canal. Rent a narrowboat today and enjoy the beautiful English and Welsh waterway scenery. Shortbreaks and weekly hire are available on our four & six berth luxury boats. Day boat hire is also available.

 Swanley Bridge Marina — associated with Swanley Bridge Marina

Swanley Bridge Marina in Cheshire is a tranquil countryside canal and narrowboat mooring on the Llangollen Canal Marina.

 Bryn Howel Hotel — associated with Bryn Howel Hotel

Hotel and Restaurant

 Lyneal Trust holidays for disabled and elderly — associated with Lyneal Wharf

The Lyneal Trust offers canal and canalside holidays in Shropshire for people with disabilities, illness or injury, or elderly and their family, friends

 Poachers Pocket PH — associated with The Poachers Pocket PH

Public House

 Willeymoor Lock Tavern PH — associated with Willeymoor Lock Tavern

Public House

 Welcome to the Swan | The Swan — associated with The Swan PH

Website for The Swan

 Marine Services Chirk  — associated with Chirk Marina

Official Website

 Crest Narrowboats - Llangollen Canal Boat Hire — associated with Chirk Marina

Narrow Boat Hire.

 Sun Trevor Bar and restaurant — associated with Sun Trevor Visitor Moorings

Eating and drinking place near moorings

  The Chainbridge Hotel - Llangollen  — associated with The Chainbridge Hotel & Riverside Restaurant

The Chainbridge Hotel is located in the magnificent vale of Llangollen in North Wales. It is sited in a unique position literally overlooking the spectacular River Dee with it's racing white water and leaping salmon and the Llangollen Canal that begins it's life just a short walk away at the beautiful Horseshoe Falls.

  The Horse & Jockey PH — associated with Grindley Brook Bridge No 28

Nearby Public House

 Pafiliwn Llangollen Pavilion — associated with Llangollen Pavilion

Modern and well-appointed, Llangollen’s renowned Pavilion comprises a wide range of facilities for all sorts of indoor and outdoor events. These can be booked individually or packaged together to suit specific needs.

 Cole Mere, All Sites - The Meres and Mosses — associated with Cole Mere Visitor Moorings

Owned and managed by Shropshire Council, Colemere is one of Shropshire’s most beautiful meres, it is almost completely surrounded by mature woodland with two very attractive hay meadows. The site attracts a variety of wildfowl a

  Lion Quays Resort — associated with Lion Quays

Resort - Hotel

Wikipedia has a page about Shropshire Union Canal

The Shropshire Union Canal, nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. The Llangollen and Montgomery canals are the modern names of branches of the Shropshire Union (SU) system and lie partially in Wales.

The canal lies in the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire in the north-west English Midlands. It links the canal system of the West Midlands, at Wolverhampton, with the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, 66 miles (106 km) distant.

The "SU main line" runs southeast from Ellesmere Port on the River Mersey to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal at Autherley Junction in Wolverhampton. Other links are to the Llangollen Canal (at Hurleston Junction), the Middlewich Branch (at Barbridge Junction), which itself connects via the Wardle Canal with the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the River Dee (in Chester). With two connections to the Trent and Mersey (via the Middlewich Branch and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal) the SU is part of an important circular and rural holiday route called the Four Counties Ring.

The SU main line was the last trunk narrow canal route to be built in England. It was not completed until 1835 and was the last major civil engineering accomplishment of Thomas Telford.

The name "Shropshire Union" comes from the amalgamation of the various component companies (Ellesmere Canal, Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal, Montgomeryshire Canal) that came together to form the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. The main line between Nantwich and Autherley Junction was almost built as a railway although eventually it was decided to construct it as a waterway.