Canal Boat Escapes, Canal Boating Holidays Yorkshire - Lancastershire

We are a small narrowboat holiday hire company based on the summit pound of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on the Yorkshire and Lancashire border.

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal was the earliest of the trans-Pennine canals to be mooted, offering a gentler, less direct route than the Huddersfield Narrow and the Rochdale. But construction delays meant it only fulfilled its potential later in the 19th century. It was built in stages from either end over a period of almost half a century.