Funding allows Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust to plant hedging along route of Lichfield Canal buff.ly/3dnQiDd

It's not long now before the revamped Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne reopens it's doors but, ahead of that, we want to hear your views on how the site can be made even better. Take this short questionnaire to let us know your thoughts surveymonkey.co.uk/r/StokeBruerne

If you've ever thought about entering into a sponsored hire boat scheme with your canal boat, have a read of this... we look at how schemes work and talk to individuals and companies who are doing it right now :) canalboat.co.uk/canal-boats/sp…

Idyllic :) Britain at its finest

Staying with the #Walsall Canal... Lee Bates and team have cleared flytipping from the Monway Bridge. Someone has just pulled up in their car and chucked this over the bridge! It took 5 people 3 hours to clear and filled 2 van loads. This is totally unacceptable! Walsall Advertiser😡

Part one of a three-part cruise guide for Grand Union canal, starting in Birmingham for a trip southwards down the route that forms the backbone of the southern waterways between the Midlands and London. Insider info, history & great pubs included! canalboat.co.uk/waterways/crui…

Something for the heritage spotters... an article all about "narrow gauge railways" and where you can still find them along the canals... canalboat.co.uk/canal-boats/na…

Your chance to submit feedback on the winter works programme...

What's more important than planning your route? Planning which pubs you will stop at along the way of course! Check out our guide to the best pubs along our most recent cruise guide - Grand Union Canal, Birmingham to Napton canalboat.co.uk/waterways/crui…

Boaty McBoat test! This month's boat test is a permanently moored house boat (this article was written during lockdown when some couldn't even visit their boats, and boating in general was off limits... hence we chose a stationary subject!) canalboat.co.uk/canal-boats/in…

Ahhhhhhhh ☺️☺️

Great work guys :)

Absolutely stunning photography here by @TTowpaths of the Coseley Tunnel on the Birmingham Canal Navigations... eerie!

Our website has had a mini makeover! Check it out below... it's much more streamlined and easier to navigate to the content you want canalboat.co.uk

"They've" got sunshine.... on a cloudy day! :) Beautiful sunny snap here from The Rose of Hungerford

We never do a cruise guide without also guiding you to the best pubs along the way ;) Which have you been to? And have we missed any!? canalboat.co.uk/waterways/cana…

After 30 years hard graft, things are starting to come together for Lichfield! canalboat.co.uk/waterways/rest…

Boaty Mc Boat test! A 52ft hybrid beauty from Trinity Boats Limited canalboat.co.uk/boats/boat-tes…

Good luck to all involved in the next phase of canal restoration for the Cotswolds.

🙌 Congratulations to everyone involved in this amazing feat of engineering. We're looking forward to seeing narrowboats on this section of the Stroudwater Navigation again for the first time since the 60s.