Canal Boat Holiday Guides In England & Wales

Top 5 reasons to visit Stratford this Easter

From our canal boat hire base at Wootton Wawen on the Stratford Canal, it’s a delightful six-hour, 17-lock cruise journey through the beautiful Warwickshire countryside to overnight moorings at Bancroft...

Top 10 Easter Canal Boat Breaks

This Easter, narrowboat holidays offer the chance to explore the Great British countryside as it bursts into life with new leaves, daffodils, bluebells, spring lambs and nesting birds. Set sail aboard...

Hooray! Spring is in the air and nature is flourishing around Anglo Welsh canal routes

Spring is always welcome when it finally breaks cover, but following an especially harsh British winter of rain, snow and low temperatures, it’s fair to say most people will greet...

Top 10 Reasons To Take A Narrowboat Holiday

We feel better by the water – Since ancient times, people have assigned healing properties to water and today we still turn to water for a sense of calm. With hundreds...

Treat Your Mum to a Day Afloat

This Mother’s Day (11 March 2018), why not spoil your Mum with a relaxing day on the water, enjoying a picnic afloat or pub lunch along the way. Anglo Welsh...

Anglo Welsh recommends – we look forward to the best Waterways Events of 2018

Spring is just around the corner and that sound you can hear in the background is the nation’s canal enthusiasts champing at the bit as they look forward to getting...

It would be fair to say that Anglo Welsh’s Ian Davies has never been one to shirk a challenge, and the 58-year-old former serviceman has always been a go-getter for...

Top 10 Woodland Walks to Visit Afloat

Britain’s wonderful canal and river network takes canal boat holiday-makers through some of our nation’s most beautiful countryside, including many woodland areas. Our woodlands are havens for wildlife – mammals,...

Top 5 Valentine’s Day Romantic Narrowboat Holiday Destinations Afloat on the UK Canals

Anglo Welsh The Narrowboat Company offer winter cruising from a number of bases, so why not treat your loved one to a love boat this Valentine’s Day?! Cuddle up together...

Top 5 Castles to Visit Afloat

From Royal weddings, state apartments and banqueting halls to siege towers, murder holes and dungeons, Britain’s beautiful castles bring history to life and make fantastic narrowboat holiday destinations. Here are...

Festive frolics on the Canals – Christmas jumpers are optional, having fun is a must!

If like everybody here at Anglo Welsh you can never get enough of the UK’s fantastic waterways, why not take a break from the Christmas shopping to attend one of...

Booking now! Anglo Welsh’s brand-new ‘Heritage’ class narrowboats

With a four-decade track record laying on memorable canal holidays, Anglo Welsh’s expert team definitely know a thing or two about narrowboats. And when it came to commissioning the latest...

We are spreading Christmas cheer early with our Instagram card competition!

Anglo Welsh spread Christmas cheer with Instagram card competition … and Santa’s pitching in with £300 worth of gift vouchers. Winter on the UK’s waterways can be one of the...

Top 4 Festive Destinations Afloat

This winter Anglo Welsh is offering winter cruising* from four bases, giving narrowboat holiday-makers the chance to celebrate Christmas or New Year afloat, joining-in the festive celebrations at exciting waterside...

Narrowboating in style – John Craven holidays on the Llangollen Canal

Earlier this year, we were delighted to welcome Countryfile presenter John Craven, and his two eldest grandsons for a short break narrowboat holiday, setting off from our canal boat hire...

Anglo Welsh’s Top 9 October Half Term Breaks

Visit the Rock Houses at Kinver Edge. From our Tardebigge base on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal near Bromsgrove, it’s a 20-hour, 37-mile, 32-lock journey to Kinver on the Staffordshire &...

Bigger, brighter and better – the new Anglo Welsh 2018 brochure is available now!

As one of the UK’s biggest and best canal boat holiday companies Anglo Welsh prides itself on responding to feedback from its customers, and if 60 years’ careful listening has...

And the winner is … ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ wins Anglo Welsh’s Canal Adventures 2017 Photo Challenge

Most people would agree that the picturesque waterways of England and Wales are just one big Instagram shoot waiting to happen, so when Anglo Welsh asked the Great British Public...

Spotlight on the Canals – the Macclesfield Canal

Spectacular Pennine views, ‘snake’ bridges, impressive stone aqueducts, striking rock formations, Victorian mills and country pubs. One of the last narrow canals to be built, and the first to be...

It has been a glorious Summer on the canals and Autumn 2017 promises even more narrowboat highlights

It is hard to beat languid summer days drifting along canals on a narrowboat, but as autumn leaves start to flutter to the ground along the nation’s towpaths, the Anglo...

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