Vixen Dates 2014-2015
July 2014
Saturday July 12:
• Hebden Bridge to Luddenden Foot
3 miles, 4 locks, 1 legging tunnel
Saturday July 26:
• Luddenden Foot to Hebden Bridge
3 miles, 4 locks, 1 legging tunnel
August 2014
Saturday, Sunday August 2, 3:
Passenger boat Vixen at Hebden Bridge Transport Festival
Horseboating: horse-drawn trips for public available on Sunday.
Finish by horseboating to Mytholmroyd and leaving Vixen there.
Friday August 15:
• Mytholmroyd to Stubbing Wharf pub, Hebden Bridge
2 miles, 5 locks
Friday August 29:
• No horseboating – Vixen at Stubbings Wharf, Hebden Bridge.
Passenger boat Vixen at Shaggy Dogs Storytelling, Stubbing Wharf
Evening performances of storytelling in canalside pub.
Saturday August 30:
• Stubbing Wharf pub, Hebden Bridge to Sowerby Bridge
6 miles, 7 locks, 1 legging tunnel
Sunday August 31:
• No horse present – moving Vixen by shafts on Rochdale Canal
Passenger boat Vixen through Tuel Lane Lock, Sowerby Bridge, Britain’s deepest canal lock, to below the locks near the Canal Basin
0.5 miles, Tuel Lane Lock (nos 4 & 3), then locks 2 & 1
September 2014
Saturday, Sunday September 6, 7:
• No horseboating – passenger boat Vixen on display with canal arts for Sowerby Bridge Rush-bearing Festival, which includes the Canal Basin and the Navigation Inn on its route.
Friday September 12:
• Sowerby Bridge to Luddenden Foot
Optional passenger start points: Lock 2 then Tuel Lane Lock (3 & 4), Britain’s deepest canal lock,
OR join at top of Tuel Lane Lock
2 miles, 3 lock passages (Tuel Lane = locks 3 & 4).
Tuesday September 23:
• Mytholmroyd to Stubbing Wharf pub, Hebden Bridge
Includes legging of Fallingroyd Tunnel and going up 5 locks
Bookings: 07711-121-056,
Tuesday September 30:
• Stubbing Wharf pub, Hebden Bridge to Todmorden
Includes going up 7 locks
October 2014:
6 – 31 October:
Horseboating with passenger boat Vixen on the Rochdale Canal
• Mon 6 Oct: Todmorden to Grandma Pollard’s, Walsden
Includes going up several locks
• Tue 7 Oct: Walsden to The Summit pub (above Littleborough)
Includes going up several locks then across the Summit amidst glorious scenery
• Mon 13 Oct: The Summit pub to Grandma Pollard’s, Walsden
Includes going across the Summit amidst glorious scenery then down several locks
• Tue 14 Oct: Grandma Pollard’s, Walsden to Todmorden
Includes going down several locks
• Sat 18 Oct: short trips from Todmorden
(provisional)
• Mon 27 Oct: Todmorden to Lob Mill and return
Includes going down then up several locks
• Thur 16 Oct: Todmorden to Stubbing Wharf pub, Hebden Bridge
Includes going down several locks
• Thur 30 Oct: No horseboating but Towpath Lantern Procession, Todmorden at 7.00 pm start from Bridge 28 Kilnhurst Bridge off Key Sike Lane, Todmorden as part of the Rochdale Canal Festival 2014
Vixen present at Fielden Wharf at the finish point.
• Fri 31 Oct: Todmorden to Stubbing Wharf pub, Hebden Bridge
Includes going down several locks
November 2014
Tuesday November 4:
• Stubbing Wharf, Hebden Bridge to Hebden Bridge centre
October / November 2015
Horseboating with horseboat Vixen on the Rochdale Canal
• Saturday Oct 17: Hebden Bridge (near rail station) to Mytholmroyd (for Arts Festival)
• Sunday Oct 18: Mytholmroyd to Hebden Bridge
• Thursday Nov 12: Stubbing Wharf to Hebden Bridge (near rail station)
