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Uttoxeter Canal planning application

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HS2: Ashton & Rochdale Canals

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Rewatering Renishaw Phase 1a Project

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Coed Gwilym Park Slipway Project

A section of the Wilts & Berks canal in water

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Shrivenham Canal Park Project

Moored boats at Snarestone Wharf on the Ashby Canal

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Ashby Canal Trail Project

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Increasing sustainability on the waterways

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The unique heritage of the waterways is under threat

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Restoring waterways transforms communities

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Britain's waterways are chronically underfunded

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Government must intervene to save our waterways sector

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Protecting the waterways from the worst of HS2

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Underfunding: Environment Agency waterways

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Underfunding: Scottish Canals

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HS2: Aire & Calder Navigation

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HS2: Dearne & Dove Canal

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HS2: Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation

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HS2: Nottingham Canal

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HS2: Erewash Canal

Boats cruising in Handsacre on the Trent & Mersey Canal

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HS2: Trent Navigation, Cranfleet Cut

a family walking alongside a canal

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HS2: Chesterfield Canal

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HS2: River Soar

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HS2: Ashby Canal

A moored boat near bridge 88 near Fradley Junction on the Coventry Canal

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HS2: Coventry Canal

Clayton Le Moors, Leeds & Liverpool Canal by Pauline McGill

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HS2: Leigh Branch of Leeds & Liverpool Canal

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HS2: Manchester Ship Canal

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HS2: Trent & Mersey Canal

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HS2: Bridgewater Canal

Bridge 25, Middlewich Branch

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HS2: Middlewich Branch of Shropshire Union Canal

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Underfunding: Canal & River Trust contract

Waterway Directory

There were once 6500 miles of navigable canals and rivers in mainland Britain. Today 4700 are navigable, with 2700 of those miles forming the connected waterways system of England and Wales.

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Hammersmith Bridge with boats underneath

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Hammersmith Bridge reopens but waterways heritage at risk

The closure of Hammersmith Bridge – and the delay to repairs – raises concerns for other historic bridges and waterways…

Volunteers bricklaying

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2021 Summer Canal Camps back digging

Five Canal Camps, organised by our Waterway Recovery Group, are taking place in July and August.

freight barge on the Aire & Calder

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Funding for North East waterways freight essential

We raised our concerns over the impact the long-term lack of funding has on freight in a letter to Rebecca…

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Parliamentarians urged to support residential boaters

IWA facilitated the online meeting, with presentations from the Residential Boat Owners Association, the National Bargee Travellers Association and Canal…

Boat cruising at Inverness

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7,000 miles of British waterways now identified

New research reveals a total of 7,000 miles of waterways in Great Britain. Of these, 5,000 of the miles are navigable today. The other 2,000 miles are…

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Covid-19 and using the inland waterways

We have been engaging with DEFRA on how the proposed steps of the Government’s roadmap, announced in February, should be…

LOVE YOUR WATERWAYS

Together we can protect and restore the waterways; Britain's 7,000 miles of canals and navigable rivers need your help.