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Jo4

What is the nearest port to Birmingham?

Debt_Free_Chick

What kind of port? Give us a clue as to what you are trying to achieve

Jo4

Thanks for taking the time to respond! Which is the nearest port you can sail into?

Debt_Free_Chick

Sorry ... do you mean a ferry or a yacht? If the latter, I would say somewhere like Bristol. And the journey onto Birmingham is easy by road or rail. I grew up in Birmingham and it was widely believed by all the Mums & Dads that our nearest seaside was Weston-Super-Mare. Some thought it would be Wales e.g. Barmouth, but the journey to Birmingham would be a nightmare - by road or rail.

HTH, but post back if I've misunderstood.

p.s. if a small boat, could you get as far as Gloucester? Not sure of moorings available, but there used to be docks there.

Jo4

Thanks again for responsding! Sorry meant the ferry. Which is the nearest ferry port to Birmingham?

evesham1988la

It depends on which ferry route, I would have thought...
*Holyhead (or Liverpool) - for Ireland
*Portsmouth - for France

Debt_Free_Chick

Jo4

Why don't you tell us where the person is starting from and we can suggest the best way to get from there to Birmingham.

Luis

Bearing in mind that Birmingham is about as far inland as you can get lol

lellie

Luis wrote:

Bearing in mind that Birmingham is about as far inland as you can get lol

that';s what I was gonna say.. it seems weird for anyone to want to know ferrys living in brum..

It really depends on where you are going.. if it's france then portsmouth or plymouth.. if it's ireland holyhead, fishguard or liverpool perhaps? or if it's norway or something then somewhere on teeside/tyneside probably

Debt_Free_Chick

Luis wrote:

Bearing in mind that Birmingham is about as far inland as you can get lol

But the canal (Grand Union?) was built to provide a waterway from Liverpool to Brum. Not quite what the OP had in mind, I'm sure

For France, I would have thought there was not a lot to choose between Portsmouth, Southampton or Dover - the latter has excellent motorway links.

Definitely NOT Plymouth - which is about as far away from Birmingham as you can get, unless you venture into Scotland (in the opposite direction)

donnie_darko_3

Now now money savers.. Do you know that you can sail down the canals from birmingham and even cross the channel in your barge over to france... honest!! There is a barge route ( and its not april fools either). my mate is a bargee you know the sort beard, former taecher drinks real ale :-)

I could find out the exact route but for anyone seriously considering sailing to the uk to come to birmingham can come into Liverpool, southampton, Newcastle (3.5 hours) holyhead, folkestone but they are all more than 2 hours away and it would help to know if you are sailing from East, west north or ermm south.