Leeds & Liverpool – West Yorkshire Waterways (Pearson) 2022 edition

2022 edition

Successor to the now defunct Pennine Waters Canal Companion, this brand new guide presents all 127 miles of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Pearson’s for the first time including the increasingly popular ‘Liverpool Link’ which ushers canal travellers into the heart of the city’s regenerated dockland in the most exciting manner. Also included are the Ribble Link for boaters heading to the Lancaster Canal, and the Leigh Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool which connects with the Cheshire Ring Canal Companion at Leigh itself. On the other side of the Pennines, in West Yorkshire, this guide features the Aire & Calder Navigation (where commercial barging is now, sadly, virtually extinct) the Calder & Hebble Navigation and the Selby Canal.

Each of the titles in the Pearson’s Canal Companions series covers a popular route or area with large scale and highly detailed maps accompanied by a wide ranging commentary, descriptions of waterside towns and villages, and itemised listings on eating and drinking, shopping, visitor centres, public transport and boating facilities. Of particular use to walkers and cyclists is the classification of towpath conditions into three grades. Considerable coverage is given to items of industrial archaeological interest.