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Aston Nature Reserve: Habitats & heritage

Burslem Branch Canal Trent & Mersey Canal Conservation Area

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Burslem Branch Canal: Conservation areas

Crown Wharf planning protection for heritage

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Crown Wharf: Planning protection

Aberdulais Aqueduct waterways heritage at risk from climate change

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Aberdulais Aqueduct: Heritage structure at risk

Hammersmith Bridge waterways heritage structure at risk

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Hammersmith Bridge: Heritage structure at risk

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Ashton & Rochdale Canals: HS2 impacts

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Renishaw: Rewatering & regeneration

Excavator carrying out groundwork

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Coed Gwilym Park Slipway: Regeneration

A section of the Wilts & Berks canal in water

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Shrivenham Canal Park: Regeneration

Moored boats at Snarestone Wharf on the Ashby Canal

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Ashby Canal Trail: Regeneration

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Restoring waterways transforms communities

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Britain's waterways are chronically underfunded

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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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Barton Swingbridge crosses the Manchester Ship Canal - Graham and Marilyn Speechley - 2004

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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.

You can find information about all the navigation authorities, and more facts and figures about the waterways, by signing up to receive a copy of our Waterway Directory.

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Salterhebble Lock Cottage (Iain Duncan)

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Salterhebble Lock Cottage Saved from Auction

IWA’s West Riding Branch heritage champions have saved this lock cottage near Halifax on the Calder and Hebble, at the…

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New Interim Leadership Team

Trustees are pleased to announce that Les Etheridge has been co-opted as a trustee and appointed as National Chair on…

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Canalway Cavalcade 2022 declared a great success

Beautiful weather on the opening day saw record numbers of visitors to the event with over 120 boats gleaming in…

Volunteers at Dukinfield

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Celebrating ASHTAC 50 years on

Ashton Attack (ASHTAC for short) followed on from Operation Ashton, the campaign to save the Ashton Canal. Approximately 1000 people…

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Boating Parade to celebrate Birmingham’s canals

Boaters from across the region are being invited to a spectacular boating parade in association with Birmingham Canal Navigations Society…

Save waterways heritage - aberdulais aqueduct

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Aberdulais Aqueduct can be saved

In August 2021 IWA successfully applied for a CADW grant to cover the cost of a structural survey of the…

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