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Photo of Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum, a visitor attraction in Northamptonshire, central England.

© Mark Percy / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum

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The Canal Museum fills a three-storey former corn mill beside the locks at Stoke Bruerne, on the Grand Union Canal. Opened in 1963, it tells the story of narrowboat life over two centuries, and just up the cut is the southern mouth of Blisworth Tunnel, close to two miles long. Paid entry, open most days. The Boat Inn stands right by the locks if you want lunch after.

More places to visit near Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum

Photo of the Grand Union Canal, a 137-mile canal running from Brentford to Birmingham, England.Highlight

Grand Union Canal

Canal

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

here · spans 9 counties

Photo of Stoke Bruerne, a village in Northamptonshire, central England.Highlight

Stoke Bruerne

Village

Canal village on the Grand Union where locks, a towpath and the old corn mill turned Canal Museum draw walkers and boaters to its waterside pubs.

0.3 km NE · Northamptonshire

Photo of Salcey Forest, a visitor attraction near Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, central England.Highlight

Salcey Forest

Attraction near Stoke Bruerne

Ancient royal hunting forest of 600-year-old oaks south of Northampton, with waymarked trails through the ancient woodland.

5.4 km E

Photo of the River Nene, a 91-mile river navigation running from Northampton to near Wisbech, England.Highlight

River Nene

River navigation

Guillotine-gated locks and water meadows from Northampton to Peterborough, where the Nene slips out into the Fens.

9.2 km N · Northamptonshire & Cambridgeshire

Photo along the Ouse Valley Way, a 150-mile long-distance path running from Syresham to King's Lynn, England.

Ouse Valley Way

Long-distance path

The Great Ouse walked source to sea — from a pub garden at Syresham to the old quay at King's Lynn, 150 miles across five counties.

9.6 km SE · spans 5 counties

Photo of Stony Stratford, a village in Buckinghamshire, south east England.

Stony Stratford

Village

Old Watling Street coaching town now within Milton Keynes, whose rival inns the Cock and the Bull are said to have given us the cock-and-bull story.

10.5 km SE · Buckinghamshire