Stoke Bruerne

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Stoke Bruerne is a village in Northamptonshire on the Grand Union Canal. Situated four miles east of Towcester, the village is described in Nicholson's Ordnance Survey Guide to the Waterways as "the best example of a canal village in this country."
There is a wealth of canal features in the vicinity:
Blisworth Tunnel - the second longest navigable canal tunnel in Britain lies just north of the village.
The Canal Museum - housed in an old corn mill beside the canal, it has a range of outside exhibits alongside its evocative indoor displays, including old working narrowboats, canalia, such as signs and mileposts, a set of boat scales for weighing boat cargoes housed in a disused lock; Mellow stone cottages, originally provided for mill workers, which face the canal like other houses might face a village street.
A graceful double-arched bridge and a flight of seven locks.
The Boat Inn - a traditional canal hostelry which has been owned by the Woodward family for over one hundred years.