🐾 Moira Furnace Museum & Country Park at a Glance
🦮 Lead Rules: Well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome across the site, including the museum and narrowboat.
🚶 Walk Length: From short strolls around the park to longer walks where you can join National Forest trails.
🌿 Terrain: Mix of level/towpath paths, woodland trails, and grassy areas.
🐑 Wildlife & Nature: You will get birds and ducks along the canal.
🏰 History & Heritage: 19th-century blast furnace, lime kilns, historic engine house, social history museum.
🚻 Facilities: Parking, toilets, picnic areas and takeaway refreshments.
🅿️ Parking: Free car parks.
☕ Dog-Friendly Nearby: On-site shop offers takeaway refreshments, and you have some nearby pubs.
About
Moira Furnace sits in North West Leicestershire, right on the edge of the National Forest. It’s a mix of heritage industry and calm countryside with a canal running through. Moira Furnace is a blast furnace that produced iron from 1806 and is now restored as a museum.
It’s a peaceful stroll along the Ashby Canal towpath, leisurely and good underfoot. You get the trees on one side and the water on the other, and there are boats moored up now and again. If you keep walking past the museum, the path links up with the National Forest trails.
If you don’t want to walk, then you can take a boat trip in a heritage narrowboat along the canal.
Dog Access and Rules
Well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome around the museum, country park and on the narrowboat trips.
Access and Facilities
Access by car is easy, follow the M42 north, A42 south or A444. Then, follow the brown signs! You have free parking and toilets, whilst the museum shop also offers takeaway refreshments, including drinks, cakes, and ice cream. There is no indoor seating, but there are some picnic benches available.
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