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This section provides links to IWA’s reports, policies and a range of other published documents
Documents are being added regularly – the library is expanding!
IWA Reports and Guidance
Guide to the Denver Crossing (June 2023)
Guide to the Leicester Line (2019)
Guide to the Manchester Ship Canal for small craft (May 2025)
Guide to the passage, planning and transit of Trent Falls (April 2026)
IWA Gap-tracker Survey Results
IWA’s Vision for London (March 2019)
IWA Vision for Sustainable Propulsion on the Inland Waterways
IWA West Country Branch Guides
Our Unique Heritage – Case Studies: Lost and Saved
Practical Restoration Handbook (September 2022)
Restoration Research Report (November 2022)
The Value of the Inland Waterways – A literature review (September 2019)
Water Transfer Guidelines (February 2026)
IWA Campaign Policies
HTML – PDF – Decarbonisation of the UK Inland Waterways Leisure Fleet
HTML – PDF – Design Standards for Construction, Restoration and Maintenance of Inland Waterways
HTML – PDF – Freight on Inland Waterways
HTML – PDF – Moorings on Navigable Waterways
HTML – PDF – Operability of Locks and Moveable Bridges
HTML – PDF – Provision of Boaters Facilities
HTML – PDF – Residential Boating
HTML – PDF – Restrictions on Waterway Use
HTML – PDF – Riparian Owner Statutory Rights
IWA Briefing Notes
Briefing Notes are written to bring our policies to life, providing examples and situations that demonstrate how our policies work in practice.
HTML – PDF – Angling on Inland Waterways
HTML – PDF – Cycling on Towpaths
HTML – PDF – Environmental Guidance for Boaters
HTML – PDF – Mixed Use of Towpaths
HTML – PDF – Navigating Canal Tunnels Safely
HTML – PDF – Removal of Pinch Points
HMTL – PDF – Provision of Boaters’ Facilities
HTML – PDF – Structures or Craft Impeding the Navigation
HTML – PDF – Using Canoes and Small Unpowered Boats on the Inland Waterways
IWA Publications
Navvies – Waterway Recovery Group’s journal
Aegre – IWA East Midlands Region’s newsletter
Cargoes – IWA South East Region’s newsletter
Sou’Wester – IWA South West Region’s newsletter
IWA Chelmsford Branch Newsletter
The Packet Boat – IWA Chester & Merseyside Branch newsletter
Grapevine – IWA Chiltern Branch newsletter (ceased publication 2015)
Wolds Waters – IWA East Yorkshire Branch newsletter
Ouse News – IWA Great Ouse Branch newsletter
Anglian Cuttings – former IWA Ipswich Branch newsletter (ceased publication 2016)
Towing Path Topics – Lancs & Cumbria Branch newsletter
Lee & Stort Recorder – IWA Lee & Stort Branch newsletter
Lichfield Lines – IWA Lichfield Branch newsletter
Towpath Telegraph – IWA Milton Keynes Branch newsletter
Meridian Cuttings – IWA North & East London and South London branches newsletter
Northern Navigation News – IWA North Riding Branch newsletter (ceased publication 2014)
Knobsticks – IWA North Staffordshire & South Cheshire Branch newsletter
Endeavour – Northampton Branch newsletter
Hereward – Peterborough Branch newsletter (ceased publication 2020)
Shroppie Fly Paper – Shrewsbury District & North Wales Branch newsletter
Keels & Cuckoos – South Yorkshire Branch newsletter (ceased publication 2015)
Bear Essentials – Warwickshire Branch newsletter (ceased publication 2019)
West London (formerly Middlesex) Branch newsletter
Milepost – West Riding Branch newsletter (ceased publication 2019)
IWA Administrative Documents
Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2025
Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2024
Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2023
Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2022
Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2021
Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2020
Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2019
Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2018
Minutes of Annual General Meetings: 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
IWA administrative policies
Joint IWA and Canal & River Trust Guidance for Restoration Groups
Reports and Publications by others that IWA has contributed to
Jonathan Mosse and the IWA Sustainable Boating Group have contributed to an academic paper: Review of UK Inland Waterways Transportation From the Hydrodynamics Point of View, which was published in April 2023 and is available to download.
IWAC / IWAAC Reports
The government’s advisory body on inland waterways, The Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC), was abolished on 2nd July 2012 following an initial announcement in July 2010. Before its demise, IWAC authorised IWA to publish any of its works (including those of its predecessor, The Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council), so that its reports and research were not lost to the benefit of the inland waterways community.
Waterways Abbreviations and Acronyms
Notes
(1) Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v 3.0.
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