Canal Boat Day Hire & Holiday Guides In England & Wales

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!

Festive Feeling on the Canals this December If like everybody here at Anglo Welsh you can never get enough of the UK’s fantastic waterways, why not take a break from...

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

Canal Boat Hire on the Llangollen Canal in North Wales Earlier this year, we were delighted to welcome Countryfile presenter John Craven, and his two eldest grandsons for a short...

Anglo Welsh’s Top 9 October Half Term Breaks

Here is are top 9 Narrowboat Holiday Breaks for October Half Term: Visit the Rock Houses at Kinver Edge. From our Tardebigge base on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal near Bromsgrove,...

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

Canal Boat Holiday Experience by Anglo Welsh 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 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

Summer Narrowboat Holidays Highlights at Anglo Welsh It is hard to beat languid summer days drifting along canals on a narrowboat, but as autumn leaves start to flutter to the...

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

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

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...

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...

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