Canalplan AC

The British Waterways Maintenance Yard at Wigan was closed today in 1991

Canalplan AC
Version 8.17.24.2
Built at 06:17:34 on Aug 31 2009

The database contains:

7525 places
7667 links between places
1724 pubs (271 from CanalLog)
473 places with facilities
764 winding holes
1011 churches (from the Boater's Christian Fellowship)
192 boatyards
42175 POI records
13504 photographs
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♦ 123 added in the last year
4 unmoderated photographs
9 unmoderated guestbook items

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Nick's Canal Route Planner - Canalplan AC is a comprehensive guide to the UK's inland waterways, it plans journeys, calculates the length (distance, number of locks, time taken etc) of your trip and shows gazetteer information on places along the way (pubs, shops and museums). Canalside events you might pass are listed. If you have never used the software before, I recommend that you read the introduction before going any further.

The Waterways are under threat - see Save Our Waterways campaign.

This is the now almost obsolete release of CanalPlanAC, but all development effort is now going into a new version. You can explore the new version here. I'm leaving this version live until I've migrated all the data and saved routes, after which this will replaced by that version.

If you wish to add photos, please use the new version

You either have a browser that doesn't support javascript, or you have javascript turned off. Although this site is carefully designed to work as well as possible without javascript, it works more smoothly with it - if you have the option, please try turning it on. Many of the newer features, including the ability to edit the intermediate place list and the map functions depend on Javascript.

Quote Of The Day

The Parrot began to move away from the wharf, nosing out into the inky waters, past Mrs Shore's Aberlystwyth, with the washing fluttering from the line, answering the tiller, pointing its long, narrow shape straight down the canal.

The blank sides of great factories stared down on us, walling us in. Sometimes there was faded lettering on their sides to give a clue to their contents: Compressors . . . Tubes . . . Tangye's Cornwall Works. It was an uncanny sensation. We were passing through the heart of a great city. Yet one had an oddly isolated, almost disembodied, feeling as we chugged steadily on through the black, still water, our engine echoing hollowly under the old cast-iron bridges.

From England is Rich by Harry Hopkins (1957)

Picture of Bingley 5 Rise Staircase - Bottom Lock No 25

Is the 5-rise a High-Rise ? . . . can seem so from below . . .

Bingley 5 Rise Staircase - Bottom Lock No 25, Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main Line - Wigan to Leeds). Picture: tony bowyer. Taken 2 September 2006

Click on the photo to see the gazetteer entry

Disclaimer: This software is provided for interest only. Neither I, nor anyone hosting the software or providing data can accept any responsibility for any accidents, loss or damage in any way resulting from using this software.

Release 8.17.24 - 30 September 2007: Non-unique place names
Release 8.17.20 - 3 March 2007: RSS feeds, icons, POI improvements, others
Release 8.17.11 - 3 September 2006: Experimental "lengthsman" feature

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