Boatyard Services

There's a mine of information on Canal Junction (who masterfully mastermind our site), about canal history, engineering, customs, scenery, maps, and useful lists of boatyard services, hotel boats and independent hire fleets, all of good quality.

Local canal societies do essential work in promoting and conserving their waterways. These ones have websites:
Leeds & Liverpool Canal Society
Calder Navigation Society
Huddersfield Canal Society

The UK Waterways Web ring gives access to a sort of controlled anarchy, with as many different uncommercial slants on canal life as you can imagine, and all the canal societies.

George's Canal Pages started it all on the internet and are more personal, including accounts of trips on canals all over the world, and discussion sections.

English Waterways by Dave Andrews  has lots of links to other sites and some nice (non-local) images.

The official British Waterways site www.waterscape.com has lots of detail and good maps.

Sowerby Bridge has its own site, and Hebden Bridge has the Hebweb and the more aptly alternative Hebden Eye.

For things to do round our local canals, see Calderdale Tourism. For the Huddersfield canals, see Kirklees Council. Or discover the whole of Yorkshire.

For surveys and advice on the Recreational Craft Directive contact Mike Carter.

For boating holidays elsewhere in the country, look at our colleagues in Drifters. Together we offer nationwide coverage of quality-assessed boats, with instant online availability.

We also recommend these small firms:
In Leicestershire: Ashby Boat Company
In Staffordshire: Heritage Narrow Boats
In Warwickshire: Clifton Cruisers
On the Welsh Borders: Beacon Park Boats and Maestermyn Cruisers

For walking holidays with supreme organisation and your accommodation booked, use UK Exploratory and Alpine Exploratory.