Canal Boat Day Hire & Holiday Guides In England & Wales

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...

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

A Narrowboat Holiday in Birmingham 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...

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...

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