Canal Boat Holiday Guides In England & Wales

Top 10 National Trust properties to visit afloat

With historic houses, classy cafes and stunning gardens, National Trust properties are great places to stop-off along the way on a narrowboat holiday. There are dozens of National Trust properties...

Canal Boat Essentials – What to pack for your 2017 waterway holiday

Anglo Welsh’s customised fleet of 160 modern narrowboats are designed and built to exacting standards so that canal boat lovers who book their holidays with us can enjoy memorable journeys...

Anglo Welsh ‘Canal Adventures 2017’ Instagram Photo Challenge

Share your canal pics with Anglo Welsh and you could win great prizes in our 'Canal Adventures 2017’ Instagram Photo Challenge. The waterways of England and Wales are nothing if...

Life after a stroke – Friends enjoy a canal boat trip

The Stroke Association’s ‘Positive Wednesday Group’, from the Life After Stroke Centre in Bromsgrove, recently enjoyed a day out travelling along the Worcester & Birmingham Canal aboard Anglo Welsh’s day...

Staycation, Staycation, Staycation. Why canal boat holidays offer a leisurely alternative to stressful foreign travel

Anglo Welsh has long believed there is ‘no place like home’ when it comes to relaxing holidays, and the evidence is that growing numbers of UK holidaymakers are now choosing...

Anglo Welsh recommends – Bristol Harbour Festival

The ever-friendly staff at Anglo Welsh’s head office in Bristol are always keen to sing the praises of their vibrant home city, not least when summer comes around and it’s...

Everything you need to keep the smiles coming

Stan Cullimore recently reviewed his holiday from our Oxford base in the Bristol Post, and found the pace of life to be good for the soul… There’s a lot to...

Anglo Welsh’s Top 10 Summer Holidays Afloat

Set off together this summer for a micro-adventure afloat, exploring the countryside and visiting exciting waterside attractions in some of Britain’s best-loved towns and cities. Here are our Top 10...

Sailing on a cloud with Matthew Gravelle and Family

Broadchurch star Matthew Gravelle was at the centre of the biggest TV whodunnit since 'who shot JR?' Last summer, the Welsh actor took his wife, Hinterland star Mali Harries, and...

Celebrate Shakespeare and the start of summer at Stratford’s 2017 River Festival

Few towns are more quintessentially English than Stratford-upon-Avon, and there is no better way to celebrate Shakespeare than the annual River Festival in the Bard of Avon’s home town. Stratford’s...

A family narrowboat odyssey to Birmingham and back

Departing from our Tardebigge base, on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal near Bromsgrove, the Daily Mail’s Guy Adams recently took his family on a canal boat holiday for the first...

Anglo Welsh support for charitable walk on the Warwickshire Canal Ring helps raise over £2,000

Phil Seedhouse is a 61-year-old IT manager from Solihull with a passion for keeping fit and music. A 100 mile canal walk to raise money for Cardiomyopathy UK certainly put...

Spring time on the River Thames

Spring is a great time to go canal boating. The countryside is alive with new life – spring lambs, ducklings and goslings, hawthorn in the hedgerows and bluebells in the...

Anglo Welsh’s top-of-the-range Constellation Class was launched in 2016 to rave reviews and tremendous feedback from narrowboat experts and holidaymakers alike. The great news for 2017 is that our high...

We’re welcoming ‘Eynsham’ back with a discount & bubbles!

Our 61ft narrowboat ‘Eynsham’ has been refurbished over the winter and will be returning to action on the Stratford Canal next week (7 April 2017), with hire prices starting at...

Anglo Welsh’s Top 10 Easter Holidays Afloat

Narrowboat holidays offer the chance to enjoy a fantastic family adventure holiday afloat. So why not ship out this Easter to explore the Great British countryside as it bursts into life...

What’s on in 2017 – Anglo Welsh’s guide to the year’s top canal festivals

Literary giant Dr Samuel Johnson famously said that “when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”. Here at Anglo Welsh we reckon you could say the same thing about canals! Every...

Anglo Welsh’s top 5 Mother’s Day trips afloat

This Mother’s Day, why not spoil your Mum with a relaxing day afloat, enjoying a posh picnic afloat or stopping off for a pub lunch along the way? Anglo Welsh...

Save £250 on Summer School Holidays with Anglo Welsh

and say hello to Harry Potter, Thomas the Tank Engine and Naked Mole-rats! Ask a canal enthusiast how they first got hooked on narrowboats and the answer will most likely...

Canals and Culture – Anglo Welsh’s prime destinations for lovers of the arts

For many people, cruising along a peaceful canal surrounded by picturesque countryside is the perfect antidote to the hubbub of modern life, but if your personal recipe for relaxation also...

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