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- Association of Canal Enterprises - Founded in 1982 by businesses in the Bath area seeking to develop services on the Kennet & Avon Canal. A Directory of services for boaters, canoeists, cyclists and walkers.
www.aceweb.org.uk
- Aylesbury Canal Society - The Aylesbury Canal Society which promotes the use of the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal for boating & walking. Boaters events in Aylesbury Basin.
www.acsoc.fsnet.co.uk
- Basingstoke Canal Boating Club - Basingstoke Canal Boating Club is open to boat users, boat owners, canal enthusiasts & anyone who just enjoys messing about in boats, whether or not they own one.
www.boatingclub.org.uk
- Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust - The Trust is promoting and supporting the building of a new waterway linking the Grand Union Canal with the River Great Ouse.
www.b-mkwaterway.org.uk
- British Waterways - The official site of British Waterways, a public corporation responsible for 2,000 miles of navigable canals and rivers in England, Scotland and Wales.
www.britishwaterways.co.uk/site/Home%255F1.asp
- Chelmer Canal Trust - Formerly called Friends of the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, this voluntary group's aims are to preserve the waterway from Chelmsford to the sea and to enhance the quality of its public enjoyment and appreciation.
www.goba.org.uk/index.html
- Cotswold Canals Trust Home Page - Restoring the Stroudwater Navigation and Thames & Severn Canal for the benefit of the public. This canal runs through Gloucestershire and part of Wiltshire traversing the glorious Cotswold Hills.
www.cotswoldcanals.mcmail.com
- Coventry Canal Society . - The history and activities of the society with information on the Coventry canal and the canal art trail. A lock filling exercise is included for boaters new to canals.
www.covcanalsoc.org.uk
- Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society - Mission is to fully restore the Derby Canal as close as possible to the original route, within 10 years.
www.smalley.mcmail.com/derbycanal
- Derby Canal - Organisation devoted to restoring the historic Derby Canal
www.derbycanal.org.uk
- Friends of President - The history, operation and engineering of the coal fired steam narrowboat, President. Information on the voluntary group that maintains and runs the boat on the English canals.
www.nb-president.org.uk
- Grantham Canal Official Website - All about the Grantham Canal - Restoration, Recreation, Environmental, Organisations and History. Help us restore this delightful, rural, broad canal and reconnect it to the national waterways network.
www.granthamcanal.com
- Great Ouse Boating Association of England - Represents boaters on the Great Ouse river system and associated waterways in England.
www.ndirect.co.uk/~chris.grant
- Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust - The Trust's work in restoring the 34 mile canal which, until 1881, linked Hereford with Gloucester in England. This site includes hundreds of photographs of our restoration work.
www.h-g-canal.org.uk
- Inland Waterways Association - 50 years of campaigning for the waterways, Bulletin, Campaigns, Events, Diary etc. Also Waterways Recovery Group, national volunteer waterway restoration body.
www.waterways.org.uk/iwa
- Kennet and Avon Canal Trust - The Trust was formed more than thirty years ago to restore the then closed Kennet & Avon Canal from Reading to Bristol as a navigation and a public amenity.
www.katrust.org
- Lancaster Canal Trust - Includes background, news, events, membership, and information about both the canal and the trust established in 1963 to restore it.
www.thelanky.co.uk
- LUCS - Linlithgow Union Canal Society - The society was founded in 1975 to promote and encourage the restoration and use of the Union Canal, particularly in the vicinity of Linlithgow, Scotland.
www.lucs.org.uk
- Macclesfield Canal Society - Promotes the Macclesfield Canal for the benefit of all its users - boaters, fishermen, walkers and those who just like looking at the loveliness of this most beautiful part of the world.
www.macc-cs.org.uk/index.htm
- Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal Society - Aims are to preserve the line of the canal, initially restore all parts of the canal which remain in water, eventually restore the whole canal to full navigable standard and to foster interest in the canal.
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mikedonlan
- Pocklington Canal Amenity Society - A major objective of the Society is the restoration of the canal to allow boats to reach the terminus at Canal Head.
www.pocklington.gov.uk/PCAS/index.html
- Railway and Canal Historical Society - Founded in 1954 to bring together all those interested in the history of transport, with particular reference to railways and waterways, its main objects are to promote historical research and to raise the standard of published history.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/rchs/index.html
- Royal Canal Amenity Group - Formed in 1974 to promote and participate in the development of the full amenity potential of the Royal Canal in County Dublin, Ireland. Now expanded to the entire canal.
www.royalcanal.org
- Sankey Canal Restoration Society - The society's aim is to raise funds to make England's first modern canal, the Sankey Navigation, navigable once more.
www.scars.org.uk/index.html
- Severn Navigation Restoration Trust - Aims are to ensure that the River Severn is properly managed to provide a source of leisure and recreation for everyone whilst improving and preserving its wildlife.
www.comtecil.demon.co.uk/index/severn/severn01.htm
- Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society - Formed in 1966 to save the privately owned Basingstoke Canal, and campaigned for restoration under public ownership. This was achieved in the early 1970s when Hampshire and Surrey County Councils purchased the derelict waterway.
www.basingstokecanal1.freeserve.co.uk/society.htm
- The Buckingham Canal Society (UK) - Works to restore the Stony Stratford and Buckingham Arms of the Grand Union Canal.
www.olio.demon.co.uk/BCSoverview.html
- The Driffield Navigation - Website dedicated to the Driffield Navigation, it's history, restoration and use. Features restoration, picture gallery, virtual cruises, and history pages.
www.cboat.freeserve.co.uk
- The Driffield Navigation Amenities Association - Website dedicated to the Driffield Navigation, it's history, restoration and use. Features restoration, picture gallery, virtual cruises, and history pages.
www.driffieldnavigation.co.uk
- The Driffield Navigation Trust - Managers of the independent waterway navigation in East Yorkshire. Their aim is to restore the navigation and to promote its potential in the re-generation of the area.
www.driffield-navigation-trust.org.uk
- The Droitwich Canals Trust - Covering the two UK canals serving the town of Droitwich, the Droitwich Barge Canal and the Droitwich Junction Canal.
www.worcs.com/dct/homeframe.htm
- The Humber Keel and Sloop Preservation Society - The society was formed in 1970 with the aims of preserving and restoring working examples of Humber sailing craft and reviving the skills and traditions of sailing the vessels.
www.drifnav.fsnet.co.uk/keels
- The Inland Waterways Association of Ireland - Voluntary association concerned with the preservation of Irish waterways and their promotion as a recreational base for boating cruising walking and fishing.
www.iwai.ie
- The Somersetshire Coal Canal - History and description of the Somersetshire Coal Canal (Society), membership, caisson locks at Combe Hay, and preservation.
homepages.enterprise.net/rtj/SCC2.html
- Waterway Recovery Group - The national co-ordinating body for voluntary labour on the inland waterways of Britain. We run 'Canal Camps' every summer - these working holidays are great fun, and can be used for the Duke of Edinburgh Residential 'Gold' award.
www.wrg.org.uk
- Wilts and Berks Canal Ameinity Group - Although originally formed to preserve what remained of the canal and its infrastructure, in 1987 the policy became one of campaigning for full restoration of the Wilts and Berks and North Wilts canals using as much of the original line as possible.
web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/dg.small/index.htm
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