This tourist map of the Shropshire Union Canal features the canal corridor at 1:60,000 showing facilities available to the boat user with details of boatyards, boat hire and trip boat operators. The illustrated guide to the canal shows features of interest. part of the derelict Shrewsbury and Newport Canal. Detailed plans of Market Drayton and Newport at 1:15,000 show streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest. There is also a diagrammatic section along the canal. Side two has canal coverage from Market Drayton to Ellesmere Port, including the Middlewich Branch. Detailed plans of Nantwich, Middlewich and Chester at 1:15,000 show streets, shopping areas, canal facilities and places of interest, and there is an introduction to the history of the canal.

The beautiful Llangollen Canal runs for 46 miles from its source at Horseshoe Falls across the border between Wales and England, visiting the historic towns of Llangollen, Chirk, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch, as well as ancient villages. It passes through the stunning Vale of Llangollen, enclosed by hills and now part of a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

50 years as the number 1 waterways guide. This ebook is best viewed on Kindle Fire in landscape mode to optimise your experience. Guide covering the canals and waterways in Wales and to the south of Liverpool.

This is an essential guide for boaters, walkers, cyclists and armchair travellers to the Oxford, Grand Union and Upper Thames canals.

Great Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.