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The Shropshire Union
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The Shropshire Union Canal runs from the
busy West Midlands through some of the most underpopulated
areas of England to the River Mersey at Ellesmere Port, about sixty
miles in all and taking a fairly leisurely four days to cruise. The
scenery is often quite dramatic, with sweeping views across to the Welsh
Marches and the strangely shaped ridge called "The Wrekin"
from the long embankments.
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There
are atmospheric heavily wooded deep cuttings, some of which were reputed
by the old boat people to be haunted. These days this is also UFO
territory! Market Drayton and Nantwich are medieval market towns which
still have some of the old half-timbered black and white buildings.
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| However the jewel in the Shropshire Union crown must be
Chester, a Roman fortress and port which has many Roman ruins, as
well as an almost complete set of medieval city walls which tower
above the canal and the unique "rows", shops on two levels
overlooking the street which date back to the middle ages. Chester
has many visitors year round, with museums, fine cathedral, good
hotels, town-crier and street theatre, but it still manages to feel
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| The northern end of the canal is at Ellesmere Port which
was a transhipment port from canal to sea-going ships. The old docks
now house The
Boat Museum which has a unique collection of ex working boats
and waterways exhibitions. |
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