VIDEO SERIES START POINT: Salford Junction (Under Spaghetti Junction)
VIDEO SERIES END POINT: Ongoing
VIA: Bordesley, Tyseley, Catherine De Barnes, Knowle, Warwick, Leamington Spa, Long Itchington
LENGTH: 137 Miles
The Grand Union Canal is the longest canal on the network, at 137 Miles long running from Birmingham to London. We walk some sections of this heading out of Birmingham. How far I will walk this canal, I'm not sure. I might keep adding more videos from time to time. So far you can see Birmingham Salford Junction to the village of Braunston via Knowle, Warwick, Leamington Spa, ...
PARTS 1 TO 8: Join me as we leave Birmingham and head out into the countryside to Warwick.We pass Kingswood Junction along the way where the Grand Union meets with the North and South Stratford Canals
PART 9 & 10: We continue from Hatton Bottom Lock near Warwick Parkway to Leamington Spa, visiting Warwick and Leamington along the way.
PART 11 & 12: I continue to the village of Long Itchington, starting at Fosse Way where we finished in part 10, I finish at Napton Junction where the Grand Union Canal meets the Oxford Canal
PART 13: I continue from Napton Junction where the Grand Union joins the southerly section of the Oxford Canal and make my way to Braunston where the northerly section of the Oxford Canal meets the Grand Union.
RAILWAY STATIONS NEAR THE GRAND UNION: Bordesley | Lapworth | Leamington Spa | Olton | Small Heath | Warwick Parkway |