Want to sell your boat?
With our simple fixed Brokerage fees and the option for us to even move your boat for you, Its a smooth sailing process for you to sell your boat.
View our Fixed fees below and get in touch today for a valuation!
More information
Join us every Saturday throughout the summer and bank holiday weekends for an afternoon of live music from local musicians by the water!
View our lineup for the summer here! ⬇️
SATURDAY SOUNDS BY THE WATERFRONT LINEUP
Enjoy great tunes, soak up the sun, and make unforgettable memories in a vibrant, family-friendly atmosphere.
✨ Hospitality at its best! Our licensed bar is open until late, serving beers, wines, cocktails, and soft drinks, along with delicious food.
Want the best spot? Bring a chair or picnic blanket and settle in!
⛺ If you want to make a night of it, why not stay on-site? Campers, glampers, and caravans welcome! Well-behaved dogs too!
We have a Hyster boat lift to take your boat from the road haulage trailer and position your new sailaway narrowboat shell on our extensive hard standing. Access to your boat is 7 days a week with an ANPR camera on the driveway to keep your new love, safe and sound.
On our hard standing you have an electric and water point at each of our land berths so you can power up or power down your tools whenever you like. A massive plus to our hard standing at Aqueduct Marina is that you can park your car or van right next to your boat, so no lugging tools or materials down a jetty to carry on your fit-out.
Don’t worry, our team of Engineers are on hand to offer you guidance or install the stuff you don’t want to. Our Engineers have many years of experience and one of our strengths is our team are really friendly as well as experts within the narrowboat world.
Our chandlery has everything you need. Our workshop has many different components for narrowboats and our chandlery team will definitely know what you will need! We have thousands of narrowboat parts in stock or we source these for you within 24-48 hours from one of our approved partners. We are also extremely competitively priced.
We have a painting workshop you can hire on a weekly basis. The key feature of our workshop at Aqueduct Marina is that it is temperature and moisture controlled, allowing you to apply the paint in the right conditions, to give it that Picasso touch!
We won’t launch it like a lifeboat but slip it softly into the water, just like how a swan glides in. We have one of the very best locations to explore the canal network and would love to welcome you to moor your narrowboat with us. Our moorings team, fronted by our hospitality host Molly-Jo, will be able to help you choose a berth and introduce you to the ‘Exclusive Moorers Pack’ worth over £1,100. We don’t hold you to any long-term mooring contracts and agreements but simply offer you a monthly price giving you freedom to branch out and leave us someday, but we are confident you won’t want to!
So in essence, if you are thinking of or have purchased a Sailaway narrowboat shell then come and take a tour of our marina located in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.
We look forward to welcoming you soon.
Team Aqueduct Marina.
Festive Opening Hours 2023|
Date |
Office | Cafe |
|
Saturday 23rd Dec |
08:00AM – 17:00PM | 9:30AM – 16.30PM |
|
Sunday 24th Dec |
09:00AM – 12:00PM |
09:30AM – 11:30AM |
|
Monday 25th Dec |
CLOSED | CLOSED |
| Tuesday 26th Dec | CLOSED |
CLOSED |
| Wednesday 27th Dec | 09:00AM – 16:00PM |
09:30AM – 15:30PM |
|
Thursday 28th Dec |
09:00AM – 16:00PM |
09:30AM – 15:30PM |
|
Friday 29th Dec |
09:00AM – 16:00PM |
09:30AM – 15:30PM |
|
Saturday 30th Dec |
09:00AM – 16:00PM |
09:30AM – 15:30PM |
|
Sunday 31st Dec |
09:00AM – 12:00PM |
09:30AM – 11:30AM |
|
Monday 1st Jan |
CLOSED |
CLOSED |
| Tuesday 2nd Jan | 08:00AM – 17:00PM |
09:30AM – 16:30PM |
Narrowboat Chloe was the latest boat to come out of our painting workshop after having a full re-paint completed here at Aqueduct Marina.
This was the first full re-paint completed by our new head painter, Paul and it is easy to say that he has done a fantastic job. A huge well done to Paul, we can’t wait to see the next one.
You can see Chloe’s transformation on the below images.
Narowboat Nell is currently in our workshop and being painted by Paul as we speak, we will of course share the transformation with you once it is completed.
For all your narrowboat maintenance enquiries, from full re-paints to blackings and anything in between, do not hesitate to get in touch with us! Call 01270 525040 or email info@aqueductmarina.co.uk to get a quote.
Aqueduct Marina Boating EventWe are delighted to announce the Aqueduct Boating Event 2023, which will take place on Saturday 15th July from 10.00am – 4.00pm
Whether you are new to boating, or you have years of experience this day is aimed at you and your boat.
Free advice from our industry expert exhibitors. A range of Boats for Sale. Behind-the-scenes access to Aqueduct Marina’s award-winning facilities. Exclusive event offers in our on-site Chandlery.
FREE entry and FREE parking
Discuss all of your narrowboat requirements with our staff, whether this be; moorings, blackings, welding, painting or anything in between.
Confirmed Exhibitors:
Aqueduct Marina, are the exclusive agents of Knights Narrowboats. Our resident boat builders can meet each of your requirements to build you a bespoke, high-quality narrowboat, that exclusively matches your individual needs.
www.knightsnarrowboats.com | 01270 525040
Manufacture and supply of bespoke canopies, covers and marine upholstery.
www.amtrim.co.uk | 01772 285100
✅ Elite Furnishings
Elite Furnishings offers you a large range of pre-created sofa beds that are designed to go down the canal boat and the easy to use click clack sofa bed opens across the width of the narrowboat, fulfilling all your narrowboat bedding needs
elitefurnishings.co.uk | 01827 313334
If it floats, chances are we’ll cover it. Get a boat insurance quote from the award-winning crew.
www.havenkj.com | 01732 223650
Our HyArk unit produces domestic power for boats based on hydrogen fuel cell technology. Quiet, reliable, clean.
www.hydrogenafloat.com | 07702 725158
Lockgate is the UK’s leading supplier and installer of Refleks Diesel Stoves, with over 20 years experience.
✅ LeeSan
LeeSan, the largest single source of marine sanitation and pump out equipment, parts and service kits.
UK manufacturer of market leading fuel treatments and our new zero plastic range of cleaning products.
www.marine16.co.uk | 01686 622213
River Canal Rescue offers membership based breakdown cover for boats on the inland waterways.
www.rivercanalrescue.co.uk | 01785 785680
Wifi On Board are the leading mobile internet equipment suppliers on the inland waterways network.
www.wifionboard.co.uk | 01335 666203
____________________________________________________________
6.30pm – Late (Evening).
Evening entertainment from the renowned Elvis tribute Paul Larcombe
Moorers Rate: £15.00 per person or £20.00 per person
Tickets including food
To help you enjoy your narrowboat in 2023, the Aqueduct Marina team in Cheshire are offering some real savings to visitors to the NEC in February.
Any narrowboat owner visiting the Aqueduct stand at BoatLife Live exhibition between the 16th and 19th of February, and holding a full-price admission ticket, should visit the Aqueduct stand in Hall 19 on Stand E31 to get their ticket stamped. This can then be exchanged for either a free week’s mooring, worth £154, or one free use of the slipway, worth £160; terms and conditions apply.
Both options will enable boat owners to use Aqueduct Marina as a mid-cruise safe harbour in 2023, as it is within easy reach of the Llangollen, Macclesfield and Caldon canals. The Church Minshull marina’s significant savings are something everyone is looking for during these difficult times.
So why not plan your boating year and cruising routes to make the most of the marina’s giveaways and join the many boat owners who already moor at Aqueduct and find the marina an ideal place to moor or store their boat, whatever the season.
Aqueduct Marina November Newsletter
Covid, awards and new toys… its been a strange but busy few months at the marina. Inside this issue we look at what has happened over the past few months as well as looking ahead to what 2021 has in store. Click the link below to view your copy.
COVID 19 Update – 12/05/2020 Getting back to work Aqueduct retain five gold anchor statusHere’s the first Aqueduct newsletter for 2020!
In this January issue we look ahead to 2020, have an update on a busy year for brokerage, reflect on a successful award season for the marina and one of its moorers as well as proving you with general updates for the year ahead.
There’s also a brief update on the latest consultations and elections and the water regulation advisory scheme (WRAS).
Enjoy this latest issue and if you haven’t already then why not subscribe and get it sent directly to you every two months.
RAM on the looseMeaning of Ram – a male sheep, battering ram or to roughly force (something) into place… well its fair to say that RAM, the boat, which was launched at Aqueduct Marina today, is anything but sheepish, battered nor rough!
RAM is actually a brand new Canal and River Trust work-boat, and represents months of hard work by our extremely talented operations team. All members of the team have been involved in the project from start to finish and we are all very proud of the final result. The Shell was built onsite by our fabrication team then handed over to the painting department where it has been grit blasted to SA 2.5 standards and coated with a 2 Pac epoxy coating. After this RAM was completely rebuilt including a brand new Beta engine, internal fit out by Knights Narrow boats and electrical loom supplied by Loom Tech. The final painting touches where then applied including new C&RT logos and a hard wearing anti slip coating on the decks and walkways.
This craft has been very carefully designed and built to ensure that it is safe to use, comfortable for its users, extremely practical and will last the test of time as it helps with the vital maintenance work on our fantastic inland waterways.
Ambassador Business of the Year AwardThe Ambassador of the Year Award sponsored by Cheshire East Council was open to any business trading within the Crewe and Nantwich area of South Cheshire. Judges from Cheshire East Council awarded Aqueduct Marina with this award as they displayed expertise and leadership in the field on a regional and national area.
Robert Parton MD of the five gold anchor marina commented on the award: “It is a huge privilege to accept this award on behalf of the whole Aqueduct Marina team.”
“This award rounds of our successful tenth anniversary year, as it is especially rewarding to be acknowledged alongside many other brilliant South Cheshire companies. Our thanks go to the South Cheshire Chamber of Commerce, Cheshire East Council and master of ceremonies Cheshire Cat Radio.”
This award recognition for the Shropshire Union Canal based family marina joins the fourth consecutive Inland Marina of the Year award that was won at the Southampton International Boat Show in September.
The Marina is open:
Mon - Sat: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Cafe is open:
Mon - Fri: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Sat - Sun: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
The Chandlery is open:
Mon - Sat: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
© 2025 Aqueduct Marina Church Minshull.
