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.

A brief travelogue / history of the Shropshire Union canal; more often referred to as simply "the Shroppie". This is the fourth of a series of guides, each written with "one eye on the history".