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INTRODUCING ASHBY BOAT COMPANY LTD. FOR YOUR CANAL NARROWBOAT HOLIDAY
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Book a Canal Holiday in a narrowboat on hire from the Ashby Boat Company and enjoy all that's best in canal boat holiday cruising. The carefully designed interiors are extremely comfortable and superbly equipped.
The independent Ashby Boat Company take great pride in their narrowboats, both inside and out, with many people returning year after year for a canal holiday.

Please browse this website to appreciate the quality of the narrowboats we have for hire and learn all that we can offer you to ensure that rewarding canal boat cruising holiday, or short break.
All our boats can be individually viewed by accessing the specific boat page in "Boat Details", and the build quality of our boats can browsed by looking at the building of the boats
Carlton and Measham.
The Ashby Boat Company does not employ booking agents so you will find that our hire prices are up to 15% lower than average, for comparable high quality narrowboat hire.

2009 BROCHURE, AND PRICES
Copies of our larger 2009 brochure are now available. The brochure includes added information on the Ashby Canal and its surrounding attractions that are within walking distance of the canal.
The brochure is in a self contained, A5 landscape format for handy browsing.
If you would like a copy of this brochure please email or telephone the boatyard giving us your full postal address.
If you wish to download a booking form directly from the Booking web-page, please first check availability of the boat that you have chosen by telephoning the boatyard on 01455 212671.

EMAIL / CONTACT NOTE:- If you do not receive a reply from us within 24 hours (36 hours at the weekend), may we remind you that you are able to reach us on the telephone at,
01455 212671 during boatyard hours, which are, 8:00am. to 5:00pm. Monday to Saturday.

CANAL CRUISING HOLIDAYS AND SHORT BREAKS IN THE SUMMERTIME
Well, the Summer has arrived, and all the signs are that it may be a hot one, let us hope so.
If you just want a relaxing and rewarding Summer holiday without all the hassle of traffic and airport check-ins, then cruising the English canal system on one of our luxury narrowboats is for you.

You will be in the heart of rural England with countryside all around you, but a canal side pub, or a village inn never too far away from available moorings, if you want refreshment.

There are sights to see and places to visit close to the canal network if you wish to stretch your legs from time to time, and whatever you want to do, you do it at your own pace.

All hirers receive comprehensive instruction on handling a narrowboat before beginning their holiday, see below.

"QUALITY IN TOURISM" ASSESSMENT RATING
Our narrowboats have just undergone (March 2009) our annual inspection for the "Quality in Tourism" ratings. The fourteen narrowboats were assessed during a two day visit by the assessor.
We are proud to announce that eleven of the fourteen boats put forward for assessment achieved a four star rating, full details of the assessment of our boats can be accessed by clicking on the "Quality in Tourism" logo.

A group out on the Ashby Canal in early summer, with all the trees newly in leaf.

THE ASHBY CANAL
The Ashby Canal is an unspoilt and lock-free rural canal winding its way through picturesque countryside. Travel north past the Battle of Bosworth Field to Snarestone, or south to Marston Junction, and the Coventry Canal, from where you are able to join the Oxford and Grand Union canals with a wide choice of canal and waterways cruising.
To the south it is possible to visit Rugby, Braunston, Warwick and Leamington, and to the north Tamworth, Great Heywood, Stoke on Trent and Birmingham.
The Ashby Canal is ideal for your first canal narrow boat experience, or for the more "relaxed" holidaymaker.
However for the more energetic, the "Ashby" is a good starting point for such trips as the Warwickshire Ring, or the Leicestershire Loop.

STOKE GOLDING
Stoke Golding is a picturesque village situated in the heart of the English countryside but with excellent access by both road and rail.
Collection from Nuneaton railway station can be provided subject to prior arrangement.
Stoke Golding has a 13th Century church, three good pubs of different character, a post office and a grocery store.
For a larger "shop" prior to your holiday there is a Morrisons supermarket just two miles from the boatyard.

Whether you are returning year after year to the canals and waterways of England, or are less experienced, we promise you a friendly and helpful service.
We welcome many newcomers to our narrowboats each year, and we take pride in passing on all the necessary tuition you could possibly need for that first canal boat holiday experience.

HIRERS RECEIVING INSTRUCTION PRIOR TO SETTING OFF ON HOLIDAY

An all "girl" crew, with Daniela looking a little worried at this time, but returned having had a lovely holiday.

A member of staff providing a "run through" of simple items that need to be ckecked at the beginning of each day.


New boat "crews" receiving instruction prior to leaving on their canal boat holiday. A member of the Ashby Boat Company team will instruct them on the few but necessary technical aspects of the narrowboat to ensure that they have a carefree and enjoyable narrowboat holiday and canal cruising experience. And, a few tips on competent steering is always a good idea. Comprehensive manuals on the working of the boats are provided so that you do not have to remember everthing all at once.

	ENJOYING THE HOLIDAY A family group enjoying their waterways holiday relaxing aboard their canal narrowboat. If a local hostelry is not available you have all the convenience of a fully fitted galley to prepare a meal of your own choosing. Look out the window, or sit on the canal bank and the English countryside can be your restaurant. If you have decided to undertake some serious canal cruising on your holiday, meals can be prepared and eaten while you are on the move if you have a big enough crew.
Narrowboat holidays need to be experienced to be fully appreciated, and can be cruised in the manner you most enjoy.

WEBSITE SURVEY RESULTS In a compilation of approximately one hundred narrowboat hire companies, that have websites, undertaken by the popular boating publication "Canals & Rivers" in April 2006, this website was one of the six featured sites in the magazine article "Web Hire". We particularly like what they said about us, "Although classical in its' design this website is relatively plain. No whistles and bells. Never the less it reveals a considerable amount of information about each of its' 16 boats. It contains plenty of extremely informative images that illustrate each boat thoroughly." We would say that this is a fair appraisal of our website, as that is what we set out to achieve, we maintain our own website, hence the "relatively plain", so it is nice to get a mention in a survey such as this. For 2009 we have increased and updated the images of the interiors of our boats for you to study. This is so that you have an up to date "picture" of the inside of all our boats, giving you a fair understanding of the facilities of the boat that you will actually be hiring. Our business is hiring excellent narrowboats to suit all requirements so that you may have an enjoyable canal boat holiday, short break, or just a day out on the canal, so please browse our website, as we wish you to see what we are able to offer on all our boats

The Ashby Boat Company Limited is a member of the British Marine Federation.	The Ashby Boat Company limited has approved procedures for the hand over of boats to hirers.

Ashby Boat Company Limited, Canal Wharf, Stoke Golding, NUNEATON, Warwickshire CV13 6EY Company Registration No. 05760492 VAT No. 565912321	Tel. 01455 212671 Fax. 01455 213 255 Email - sales@ashbyboats.co.uk Top