Moorings on the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal

The Sheffield & Tinsley Canal is a 6-kilometre broad canal climbing from Tinsley, on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation, through the Tinsley flight of 11 locks into the centre of Sheffield at Victoria Quays. Opened in 1819, it was built to bring coal, steel and goods into the city, and it passes through the heart of the Lower Don Valley steel district, beneath the Tinsley Viaduct and past Meadowhall.

The canal terminates in Victoria Quays, a restored Victorian basin under the arches of the old Sheffield Canal Company terminus, redeveloped in the 1990s with a hotel, offices, bars and a marina. It is one of the most striking urban canal terminals in the country and the only navigable water in central Sheffield.

Long-stay moorings are available at Victoria Quays Marina, with additional berths at Tinsley and along the South Yorkshire Navigation towards Rotherham and Doncaster. The canal is broad, taking wide-beam craft up to Sheffield size, and connects downstream to the Trent at Keadby for east-coast and Humber cruising. Sheffield station is a five-minute walk from the basin, the tram runs alongside much of the route, and the M1 crosses the canal at Tinsley.