Useful Links

If you have found this site useful and interesting you should also find it worthwhile having a look at the sites listed below.

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Further Information on Buying, selling and making use of canal boats
Publications
Relevant News Articles
History and Preservation of Canals
Other affordable internet Websites

Further Information on buying, selling and making use of boats on UK waterways

Read what it’s like to live aboard a canal boat. Read the blog from a New Zealander ‘living aboard’.

Interested in learning how to to steer a boat, and other safety considerations before taking one out? Check out Willow Wren Training.

For interactive maps of the canals in the UK see Waterscape.

Further advice on all things related to inland boating in the UK is available from waterscape and britishwaterways

Information regarding safety including advice on Boat Examinations, Fire Safety and Carbon Monoxide risk: Boat Safety Scheme

The Maritime and Coastguards Agency website has information and application forms for licensing as well as advice on safety, weather, construction standards and more.

For holidays in Britain visit visitbritain and if going further afield see boatingeurope
Canal Junction – the comprehensive canal guide and leisure directory. Maps, history, culture, engineering, museums, folk art, hotel boats, boatyards, boat brokers, narrowboat holiday hire firms, hints for first timers & more.

Scottish Canals: Destinations for leisure, sport & investment
Scotland’s 137 mile (220km) network of canals offers visitors a breathtaking array of leisure, sport and investment opportunities.

Wilts & Berks Canal Trust
Official site of the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust. Restoring a Waterway connecting Wiltshire, Swindon and Oxfordshire for the 21st Century.

London Canal Museum Home Page
London Canal Museum, the London waterways museum telling the story of canals, boats, the ice trade, and ice cream.

Publications

Online newspapers ‘covering’ the UK.
Narrowboatworld
towpathtalk
canalcuttings

Relevant News Articles

New articles are now ‘posted’ rather than being added to this page.

‘Search for canal swimmer called off’ BBC News 24th July 2008
‘Canals better used now than in the Industrial Revolution’ The Herald 24th July 2008.
‘Renaissance for canals as new boaters come aboard.’ Times online 24th July 2008
‘Call to tackle long-term funding for canals.’ Guardian 24th July 2008
‘Freak accident leaves narrowboat stranded on lock.’ Telegraph, 11th July 2008
‘Time to make waves on the canals’ The Herald 25th February 2008
‘A different view of Great Britain’ Herald-mail.com 14th October 2007
‘(Ireland’s) Canals could be top attraction.’ BBC.co.uk