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The Coventry and Ashby Canal
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The Coventry Canal is often looked upon simply as a through route between North and South. This video shows it to be a most enchanting waterway, thoroughly worthy of an extended cruise upon its waters. It's surprisingly rural and there's plenty of interest to see. It's a narrow canal and was originally built to provide access to the Warwickshire coal fields.
The Coventry Canal video
starts at Fradley junction, where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal.
The Swan Inn is an archetypal canalside watering hole. There's also a well established
boatyard and hire cruiser base at Fradley, and British Waterways have an area
office and maintenance depot there. The rural section from here down to Fazeley
Junction was built by the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company. 
Beyond Fazeley, the original track was constructed by the Coventry Canal Company, all the way South to Coventry Canal Basin. The Coventry Canal crosses the Tame Valley on a stone aqueduct, and rises up out of the valley floor via the Glascote locks, and skirts around Tamworth. It climbs the 12 locks of the Atherstone flight. The video explores Atherstone, the traditional home of hat making, and reveals the origins of the expression "to be as mad as a hatter".
The canal winds on through Nuneaton with its great quarries to join the Ashby Canal at Marsden Junction. The video takes you up the Ashby through delightfully rural arable countryside and goes on (on foot) to explore the restored iron furnaces and the new canal basin at Moira.
Back on the Coventry Canal, we cross the Warwickshire coal field to Hawkestone junction and Sutton Stop. The final section of the video is like a journey through British motoring history, as we pass through the sites of some of the greatest British Motoring names .... Riley, ... Wolseley, ..... Daimler, ....... Hillman. We also take you around the Motoring Heritage Museum in Coventry. The programme ends in the beautifully restored Coventry Canal Basin