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Canals of the United Kingdom; see also Canals of the United Kingdom.

The following list includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (eg Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (eg Rochdale Canal).

Canals in England

• Aire and Calder Navigation
• Andover Canal
• Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal
• Ashton Canal
• Barnsley Canal
• Basingstoke Canal
• Baybridge Canal
• Beaumont Cut
• Birmingham Canal Navigations (a company owning many canals around Birmingham and the Black Country, including the Birmingham Old Main Line and the Birmingham New Main Line) (see BCN Main Line)
• Birmingham and Fazeley Canal (part of Birmingham Canal Navigations)
• Blyth Navigation, Suffolk
• Bridgewater Canal, Greater Manchester and Cheshire
• Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, Somerset
• Bude Canal
• Bumble Hole Branch Canal
• Calder and Hebble Navigation
• Caldon Canal
• Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation
• Chester Canal (now part of the Shropshire Union Canal)
• Chesterfield Canal
• Chichester Canal
• Coalport Canal
• Coventry Canal
• Cromford Canal
• Dearne and Dove Canal, South Yorkshire
• Derby Canal
• Digbeth Branch Canal (part of Birmingham Canal Navigations)
• Dorset and Somerset Canal
• Driffield Navigation, East Yorkshire
• Droitwich Canal
• Dudley Canal - Dudley Canal Line No 1 and Dudley Canal Line No 2 (part of Birmingham Canal Navigations)
• Ellesmere Canal (much of which is now known as the Llangollen Canal)
• Erewash Canal, Derbyshire
• Exeter Canal
• Fairbottom Branch Canal
• Fletcher's Canal
• Foss Dyke
• Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, Gloucestershire
• Grand Junction Canal (now part of Grand Union Canal)
• Grand Union Canal
• Grand Western Canal
• Grantham Canal
• Hatherton Canal
• Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal
• Hertford Union Canal, London
• Hollinwood Branch Canal
• Horncastle Canal
• Huddersfield Broad Canal
• Huddersfield Narrow Canal
• Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation, Suffolk
• Islington Branch Canal
• Kennet and Avon Canal
• Lancaster Canal
• Leeds and Liverpool Canal
• Leven Canal
• Lichfield Canal
• Limehouse Cut, London
• Liskeard and Looe Union Canal
• Llangollen Canal
• Louth Navigation
• Lydney Canal
• Macclesfield Canal
• Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal
• Manchester Ship Canal
• Market Weighton Canal
• Melton Mowbray Navigation
• Middle Level Navigations
• Montgomery Canal
• North Walsham & Dilham Canal, Norfolk
• North Wilts Canal
• Nottingham Canal
• Oakham Canal
• Oxford Canal, Oxfordshire
• Peak Forest Canal
• Pocklington Canal
• Regent's Canal, London
• Ribble Link
• Ripon Canal
• River Lee Navigation, Hertfordshire, Essex, London
• Rochdale Canal
• Rother Link
• Royal Military Canal
• Sankey Canal
• Selby Canal
• Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation
• Shrewsbury Canal
• Shropshire Canal
• Shropshire Union Canal
• Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal
• Sleaford Navigation
• Somerset Coal Canal
• Southwick Ship Canal
• St. Columb Canal
• Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
• Stainforth and Keadby Canal
• Stockport Branch Canal
• Stort Navigation
• Stourbridge Canal
• Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
• Stroudwater Navigation
• Tame Valley Canal (part of Birmingham Canal Navigations)
• Tavistock Canal
• Thames and Medway Canal, Kent (also known as the Gravesend and Rochester Canal)
• Thames and Severn Canal
• Titchfield Canal
• Trent and Mersey Canal
• Ulverston Canal
• Uttoxeter Canal
• Weaver Navigation, Cheshire
• Wardle Canal, Cheshire
• Wednesbury Old Canal (part of Birmingham Canal Navigations)
• Wey and Arun Junction Canal
• Wey and Godalming Navigations
• Wilts and Berks Canal
• Worcester and Birmingham Canal
• Worsley Navigable Levels
• Wyrley and Essington Canal (part of Birmingham Canal Navigations)

Canals in Northern Ireland

Lagan Navigational Canal (disused) at Broadwater, near Aghalee.jpg)

Lagan Navigational Canal (disused) Aghalee to Soldierstown.jpg)

• Broharris Canal
• Coalisland Canal (Tyrone Navigation)
• Dukart's Canal
• Lagan Canal
• Newry Canal
• Shannon-Erne Waterway
• Strabane Canal
• Ulster Canal

Canals in Scotland

• Aberdeenshire Canal
• Buchan Canal
• Caledonian Canal
• Crinan Canal
• Dingwall Canal
• Forth and Clyde Canal
• Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal
• Monkland Canal
• Spynie Canal
• Union Canal (originally known as Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal)

Canals in Wales

• Aberdare Canal
• Glamorganshire Canal
• Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal
• Llangollen Canal
• Monmouthshire, Brecon and Abergavenny Canal
• Montgomery Canal
• Neath and Tennant Canal
• Swansea Canal

Canals that have been abandoned or are not navigable

• Andover Canal
• Arbury Canals
• Bentley Canal, Wolverhampton/Walsall
• Bradford Canal, West Yorkshire
• Brown's Canal – A one mile long canal built around 1801 that connected to the River Brue^[1]
• Black Bear Canal
• Caistor Canal, Lincolnshire
• Cann Quarry Canal
• Car Dyke
• Chard Canal
• Cinderford Canal
• City Canal, London
• Coombe Hill Canal
• Charnwood Forest Canal
• Croydon Canal, London
• Donnington Wood Canal, East Shropshire
• Eardington Forge Canal A 750 yard long canal built between 1776 and 1781 connected to the Severn below Bridgnorth.^[2]
• Fletcher's Canal, Clifton, Salford
• Galton's Canal, Somerset
• Glastonbury Canal
• Grand Surrey Canal, London
• Grosvenor Canal, London
• Hackney Canal, Devon
• Horncastle Canal, Lincolnshire
• Itchen Navigation, Hampshire
• Kensington Canal, London
• Ketley Canal, East Shropshire
• Leominster Canal
• Newcastle-under-Lyme Canal
• Newport Pagnell Canal
• Nutbrook Canal
• Ouse Navigation, Sussex
• Par Canal, Cornwall
• Parnall's Canal, Cornwall
• Petworth Canal
• Pidcock's Canal
• Portsmouth and Arundel Canal
• Rolle Canal (Also known as the Torrington Canal)
• Salisbury and Southampton Canal
• Shrewsbury Canal
• Sir John Glynne's Canal
• Somersetshire Coal Canal
• Stamford Canal
• Stover Canal, Devon
• Thorne and Hatfield Moors peat canals
• Tremadoc Canal A short canal running between The river Glaslyn and Tremadoc. The canal was opened in about 1815 and ran for thirty-five years before being replaced by a tramline.^[3]
• Ulverston Canal
• Westport Canal, Somerset
• Wombridge Canal, East Shropshire

Proposed canal routes

• Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway: Connection from Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes to the River Great Ouse near Bedford. This link will finally enable broad-beam boats to travel from the north to the south of the inland waterway network.^[4]
• Fens Waterways Link: The Fens Waterways Link comprises several new waterways and improvements to current routes. It will create new circular routes and in conjunction with the Milton Keynes and Bedford Waterway, it will be connected to the rest of the country's waterways via the Great Ouse.^[5]
• Grand Union Canal (Slough Branch): Extending Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal south to join the River Thames.^[6]
• Maidenhead Waterways: Making the York Stream and other parts of the Maidenhead Waterways fully navigable for boats and linking to other nearby canals and navigable rivers.^[7]
• Rother Link: Planned canal which would connect the Chesterfield Canal at Killamarsh, via the River Rother through to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, thus creating a new cruising ring and encouraging boats to visit the Chesterfield Canal.
• Upper Avon Extension (Warwick): This proposed connection from River Avon to Grand Union Canal via Warwick is subject to much local opposition.^[8]

See also

UK Waterways portal

• List of rivers in the United Kingdom

References