 | For youth or other groups as a
day trip, weekend away or week long activity |
| As an educational resource, for
schools /groups to learn more about the waterways, operating a
narrowboat, negotiating locks |
| As an opportunity to see an entirely different view of
local towns or taking a "back door" route into London on the
Grand Union Canal. |
| For team building; getting
members of a group working together and knowing each other
better |
| In order to gain
access to the differing interests and hobbies that range from canal
and industrial architecture to wildlife and environmental matters |
| For all the community to enjoy
the waterways and experience the richness of a slowed pace of life on
the canal |
| For building youth group memories
that last a lifetime |
Contact Janet White on 01923
224411 or bookings@swhertsnarrowboat.org.uk
foravailable dates. You can make an
on-line booking reservation using the booking form.
Naturally, you don't have to
make bookings on line. Contact us by email,
write to us or call us to make a more conventional booking using our
standard paper based booking form.
About the Boat and Where You
Can Go
Dick's Folly was purpose built to the design of the
project. The boat accommodates a maximum of 12 passengers.
She is a traditional built narrowboat, laid in 1987 and fitted
out during 1988. Internally, the pine cladding provides a warm and cosy
atmosphere. It should be noted that the boat is not designed for
wheelchair use. See The Boat for more
information.
An excellent journey planning
tool can be found at Canalplan
AC. Canalplan AC is a web-based program designed to help you plan a
journey on the Grand Union Canal and Britain's inland waterways
Cruising
North
A week's cruise north will take in the beautiful towns of
Berkhampstead and Leighton Buzzard, the Tring summit and Marsworth flight,
the wendover Arm, the Aylesbury Arm, the new town of Milton Keynes, on to
Stoke Bruerne (with its waterways museum) and the famous Blisworth tunnel.
Cruising South
Cruising south takes in the beauties of Cassiobury Park
and the outskirts of london, including the Slough Arm, onto the Hanwell
flight into Brenford. Turning off at the Bulls Bridge takes you into the
Paddington arm to savour the delights of Little Venice, the Maida Vale
tunnel, Camden Lock, Regents Park Zoo and the Islington
Tunnel.
Location and Cruising
See the map for the
project location on the Grand Union Canal, near Abbots Langley. Our base offers secure, off street parking for several vehicles for those
using the boat. The site has water, electricity, a barbeque and is nearby
a rubbish disposal, a garage and a shop.
The location provides an ideal mooring for the boat on the
River Gade at its junction with the Grand Union Canal at Hunton Bridge, nr
Abbots Langley and Watford.
We are always pleased to welcome people to the Base to see
our facilities before they use the boat.
