Museums & Galleries · Northamptonshire
The Canal Museum
📍 NN12 7SE
Photo: Chris Allen (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
The Canal Museum, formerly known as the National Waterways Museum at Stoke Bruerne and The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne, is a canal museum located next to the Grand Union Canal just south of the Blisworth Tunnel, near the village of Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire. It is about 10 miles (16 km) north of Milton Keynes and 7 miles (11 km) south of Northampton near junction 15 of the M1 motorway. — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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🚆 Or come by train
- Northampton 6.6 miles
- Wolverton 7.1 miles
- Milton Keynes Central 9.6 miles
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