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Features
These pages will be expanded to include anything of interest relating to canals and navigable rivers in the UK.
Navigation Authorities Addresses, contact details and wateraways covered by all the navigation authorities for which information is available.
A New Wonder of the Waterways The amazing new Falkirk Wheel photographed by Hazel Phillips.
Bantam Tugs All about these push-pull tugs built in the 1950s and 60s.
Getting Afloat Some points to be considered when buying a boat.
Chronology Waterway Events in year order. What was happening in 1774, or any other year?
Cruise Logs Monthly accounts of our voyages starting from 1994. With details of locks, miles and cruising times for each stage of the journey.
Cruising Times Average, maximum and minimum cruising times for each waterway we have travelled, together with Lock/Miles per hour for each category. The figures are based on our cruises since 1994.
Events of 2004 A list of the major waterway events scheduled for 2004
Family History A page for those people trying to trace an ancestor with a waterways connection.
Canal Aqueducts A list of the major aqueducts on each waterway
Canal Tunnels A list of major canal tunnels in length order.
Lock Flights A list of lock flights in size order.
River Thames Lock Sizes Individual lock sizes for each Thames lock.
Seven Wonders of the Waterways Description and pictures of these seven engineerig achievements.
My Holidays on Inland Waterways The Web Version of this book by P Bonthron, with full text and photographs. First published in 1916.
A Journey down the Grantham Canal - 1881 This article was first published in June 2001 in Issue No 9 of Waterfront, a quarterly magazine about the Grantham Canal. My thanks to the author and the Grantham Canal Partnership for allowing its publication here.
Safe and Friendly Cruisng Advice on boating etiquette from the leading inland waterways organisations.
Waterway Names to Codes A waterways coding system as used on these pages and their supporting database.
Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.
