The Stoke Bruerne Page
	Stoke Bruerne is a village in Northamptonshire on the Grand Union Canal. Situated four miles east of Towcester, the village is described in Nicholson's Ordnance Survey Guide to the Waterways as "the best example of a canal village in this country." Click on the links in the text below to see images of Stoke Bruerne There is a wealth of canal features in the vicinity: Blisworth Tunnel - the second longest navigable canal tunnel in Britain lies just north of the village; The Canal Museum - housed in an old corn mill beside the canal, it has a range of outside exhibits alongside its evocative indoor displays, including old working narrowboats, canalia, such as signs and mileposts, a set of boat scales for weighing boat cargoes housed in a disused lock; Mellow stone cottages, originally provided for mill workers, which face the canal like other houses might face a village street A graceful double-arched bridge and a flight of seven locks; The Boat Inn - a traditional canal hostelry which has been owned by the Woodward family for over one hundred years.
When searching the web for information about Stoke Bruerne for a research project, I found several relevant web pages, but no central reference page of links. This is my attempt to provide such a resource. I hope residents and visitors find it useful.
Selected Stoke Bruerne Links stbru3.mov A QuickTime VR panorama of Stoke Bruerne's canalside The Canal Museum 1 The Canal Museum 2 two websites which describe the Canal Museum - the first appears to be the official site The Boat Inn the canalside pub's website - the other canalside pub in the village, The Navigation, does not appear to have a site. The Boat Inn has a restaurant and offers boat trips on the Indian Chief narrowboat. Stoke Bruerne Boats providing boat trips on the Grand Union Canal, day boat hire and a cottage to let which overlooks the canal Bruerne's Lock AA listing for the canalside restaurant Waterways Cottage canalside guest house Stoke Bruerne in 1902 a description of the village in 1902 - from the GenUKi website Grand Union Canal history of Stoke Bruerne's canal - from the Roots and Routes website Northamptonshire history of the county with some references to the village Map Link to map of the locality from the Multimap website   NB This is not an exhaustive list of links - please let me know if there are significant pages I have missed!