Canal Boat Day Hire & Holiday Guides In England & Wales

This week Anglo Welsh’s narrowboat ‘Butterfly’ appeared on BBC One’s popular ‘Antiques Road Trip’, taking presenter Catherine Southon across the awesome Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal in North Wales....

Anglo Welsh’s Top 10 Foodie Finds Afloat

Visiting local markets and independent shops to find fresh ingredients for cooking on board can be a fun and inspiring element of a holiday afloat. The 2,000 miles of navigable...

Spotlight on Great Haywood

Canal Boat Hire on Trent & Mersey and Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canals Near Stafford Anglo Welsh’s canal boat hire base at Great Haywood, on the junction of the Trent &...

Celebrate National Parks Week Afloat (22 – 29 July)

Canal boat holidays offer the chance to explore some of Britain’s most beautiful countryside, including several of our wonderful National Parks. Cruising gently along at just four miles per hour is...

Life after a stroke. Friends enjoy an Anglo Welsh canal boat trip

2 Hour Narrow Boat Trip from the Worcester & Birmingham Canal to Alvechurch Fourteen stroke survivors from Bromsgrove, together with their families and carers, enjoyed a two-hour boat trip aboard...

Top 10 tips for reducing plastic waste afloat

The recent Blue Planet II series highlighted the alarming amount of plastic found in our oceans and consequently in the animals that live there. Sadly our inland waterways are also affected...

Top 8 luxury canal boats for hire in 2018

Today’s canal boats are fully equipped with all the essential mod cons - central heating, hot water, TV, fully-equipped kitchens, showers and flushing toilets. To create ever higher standards of...

Top 9 Family Canal Boat Breaks

Canal boat holidays are great for families – bringing everyone together for an adventure afloat – soaking up the scenery, learning how to steer the boat and work the locks,...

Wonderful Wootton Wawen – the place to go for peaceful cruises, high culture and very long tunnels!

Popular canal boat hire destination Wootton Wawen in the West Midlands Anglo Welsh’s Wootton Wawen base near Henley-in-Arden in the West Midlands is one of the UK’s most popular locations...

Come Along to One of Our Open Days

On Sunday 15 April 2018 we’re offering free canal boat holiday taster sessions at five of our canal boat hire bases, giving visitors the chance to find out more about...

Celebrate National Pet Month With a Canal Boat Holiday

To celebrate National Pet Month, here at Anglo Welsh canal boat holidays we are waiving our second pet price of £35 on holidays booked from today to depart throughout April....

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...

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

Spring Canal Boat Holidays 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...

Top 10 Reasons To Take A Narrowboat Holiday

So Why 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...

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...

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