🌿 Lime Kilns L1 Leisure Mooring
Ashby Canal | Near Hinckley, Leicestershire
📍 Location
Lime Kilns L1 is located on the lock-free Ashby Canal, close to Hinckley in southwest Leicestershire. The site sits directly off the A5 Watling Street and offers a peaceful rural setting with easy access to Hinckley town centre (2 miles) and Nuneaton (5 miles west).
🚤 Mooring Details
- Site length: approximately 211 metres
- Berths: Up to 6 vessels moored against the off-side bank
- Type: Leisure mooring only (not residential)
- Access: Behind a vehicle barrier with steps down to the canalside
- Security: Fenced site with padlocked gate; keys available to berth holders for a refundable deposit
🛠️ Facilities
- Drinking water available from the visitor moorings opposite
- Elsan disposal at Sutton Cheney Wharf (~6 miles north)
- Refuse and Elsan disposal also available at Hawkesbury Junction (~8 miles southwest)
- Facilities are managed by the local waterway team and not part of the mooring agreement
- Car parking: None on site; public road access only
- Grade: Basic
🚲 Towpath & Access
- Viewing: Accessible from the towpath at any time
- Please respect the privacy of other moorers
🏘️ Nearby Amenities
- Hinckley: Shops, restaurants, pubs, cinema, and events like Feast Hinckley and the Soap Box Derby
- Rail: Hinckley Station, Hawley Road, LE10 1UE
- Road: Direct access from A5 Watling Street
🏡 Leisure Use Only
This site is intended for leisure boat storage between trips. Weekend stays and occasional longer visits are welcome, but it is not suitable for residential use and does not have planning consent or infrastructure for long-term living.
📌 Additional Info
- What3Words: tries.orchestra.else
- Waterway: Ashby Canal
- Viewing: From towpath
- Nearest Road
- The mooring site is directly off the A5 Watling Street at Hinckley. Hinckley town centre, which offers a wide range of shops, is approximately two miles away. Nuneaton town centre is approximately five miles away to the west.
- Nearest Station
- Hinckley, Hawley Road, Hinckley, LE10 1UE.
- Nearest Town
- Hinckley
- Additional Information
- Drinking water is available from the waterpoint on the visitor moorings opposite this site. Elsan disposal, can be found at Sutton Cheney Wharf, approximately six miles cruise to the north. Refuse and elsan disposal facilities are also available at Hawkesbury Junction which is an eight mile cruise to the south west. The facilities listed above are provided by and under the control of the local waterway, they do not form part of the mooring agreement. Access to the site is behind a vehicle barrier with steps down to the canalside. The site is protected by fencing and a padlocked gate. Keys are available to berth holders only for a refundable deposit of 50 pounds. Deposits will be refunded when keys are returned with a valid receipt. This is a leisure site and is determined by us to be a mooring site for the storage of boats between leisure use, customers may well spend weekends on this site, and occasionally longer periods, but it is not sold as, or intended to be suitable for long term residential use. This site does not have local authority planning consent for residential use, neither does it have the level of facilities and service expected of such a mooring. As such the offer that we have is only intended to meet the needs of a leisure boater. What3Words: ///tries.orchestra.else
- Waterway
- Ashby Canal
- Car Parking
- None/Public Road
- Facilities Block
- No
- Gated Access
- Site Specific Key
- Grade
- Basic
- Viewing Arrangements
- The site can be viewed at any time from the towpath. Whilst at the site, please respect the privacy of other moorers.
