UK Canals & Waterways

Near the Water - Pubs, Inns, Shopping, Villages, Cottages, etc.

Many thanks to Tim Lewis who supplied many of the links for this page.

For boat trips, see Excursion, Charter, and Restaurant Boats - UK.

Hind and Hart has a great series of pages on:

• shopping
• pubs
• museums
• cinemas
• bookshops
• cathedrals and churches

Pub Guides

Sally Boats, a hire firm, provides a Pub Guide for the Kennet and Avon Canal.

Canalside Pubs in the Heart of Warwickshire, from Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). Covers parts of Grand Union and Oxford Canals.

Waterside pubs/restaurants with Web sites

The Barge Inn - Honeystreet, Pewsey, Wilts. (K&A)

Boat Inn - Stoke Bruerne, Northants. (GU)

Boat Inn - Ashleworth Quay, Glos. (R. Severn)
   Flooding pictures from July 2007 available at the website.

Boat Yard - Hoghton, Lancs. (L&L) - lodging as well

Bridge Inn Ratho - Edinburgh Canal Centre - Scotland

Cotton Arms - Wrenbury, Ches. (Llangollen)

Dolphin Hotel - St. Ives, Cambs. (Gt. Ouse) - Lodging

Dundas Arms - Kintbury, Berks. (K&A)

Dusty Miller - Wrenbury, Ches. (Llangollen)

Fish & Eels - Hoddesdon, Herts. (River Lee) [no web site]

Gate Inn - Amington, Staffs. (Coventry Canal)

Grand Junction Arms - Bulbourne, Tring, Herts. (GU) - curry

Moat House - Acton Trussell (S&W) - Lodging

Narrowboat Inn - Weedon, Northants. (GU) - Lodging

Narrowboat Inn - Whittington (Llangollen)

Navigation Inn - Buxworth, Derbyshire

Navigation Inn - Wootton Wawen, Warks. (Stratford on Avon Canal)

New Inn - Bar/Restaurant - Buckby Wharf (Grand Union)

Prince of Wales - Birmingham (adj. to Cambrian Wharf) - Tim Lewis says "Very popular with boaters". [no longer has web page]

Samuel Barlow Bar and Restaurant - Alvecote, nr. Tamworth, Staffs., on Coventry Canal

White Horse Inn - Dunston Fen, Metheringham, Lincoln (River Witham)

Food Shopping Guides

Canalside Shopping/Eating Web Sites

Camden Lock Markets - North-West London

Canalside Villages

Grindley Brook Village and locks - on the Llangollen Canal

Lapworth - at junction of Stratford and Grand Union [no longer has web page]

Little Venice - London village (Regents Canal) [web site defunct]

St. Ives, Cambs. - on R. Ouse

Stoke Bruerne, Northants. - well-known canalside village.

Wrenbury Village, Ches. - adjacent to the Llangollen Canal

Hotels/B&Bs

Holden House Guest House - Shardlow, Derbyshire, on River Trent

Canal Bank B&B - Brecon, Powys, Wales, on the Mon & Brec canal

Dolphin Hotel - St. Ives, Cambs. (Gt. Ouse)

Moat House - Acton Trussell (S&W)

Navigation Inn - Buxworth, Derbyshire

Dundas Arms - Kintbury, Berks. (K&A)

Narrowboat Inn - Weedon, Northants. (GU) - Lodging

Boat Yard - Hoghton, Lancs. (L&L)

Holiday Cottages

• Lengthsman's Cottage - Lowsonford, Warwickshire, on Stratford-on-Avon Canal
• Lock cottage at Stoke Pound on W&B

• Lee Valley Boat Centre - riverside chalets (nr. Broxbourne, on backwater of R. Lee)
• The Old Tollhouse - Norton Junction, near Daventry on GU
• The Old Water Mill - Great Doddington on River Nene
• Boat Inn Cottage - Easenhall, Rugby on North Oxford canal
• Stratford-upon-Avon studio apartment - on Stratford-on-Avon Canal
• There are reportedly more, but finding them on the cottages4you website is time-consuming!

Top Lock Bungalow Marple - Marple, Stockport, on canal basin

Wyvern Shipping Co. Waterside Cottage - Linslade, Beds., on GU

Sarl Val Rive (en) (fr) - riverside self catering holiday cottage and apartments - 2 kilometres from Dinan, Brittany, France

Laundrettes

Other sources of facilities near the water