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This List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom is a list of links to any navigation authority in the United Kingdom, relating to any navigable waterway, aqueduct, canal, navigation, river or port.

These include:

• narrow canals, broad canals, or ship canals
• rivers which have been made navigable
• the Broads
• the navigable drains of The Fens.

Examples of navigation authorities

The "Big Three"

• British Waterways – a public corporation and commercial operator, subject to objectives laid down by the government, and statutory obligations and powers.
• Environment Agency – environmental regulatory body, manages its waterways as part of its water management obligations.
• Broads Authority – manages its waterspace as part of the National Park Family. This is because no other national park has a navigation running through it and the "Sandford Principle" of conservation only would not be feasible.

Other authorities

• Local authorities
• National Park authorities
• Trusts

Dredging the Union Canal, Edinburgh

Hickling Broad, Norfolk Broads

Prebends Bridge, River Wear, Durham

Punting on the Cam, Cambridge

"Lore Prahm" entering Silloth Port, Solway Firth

River Conwy estuary, North Wales

River Lagan, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Commercial Port, Whitehaven, Solway Firth

Navigation authorities in the UK

• Associated British Ports - Port of Hull
• Basingstoke Canal Authority
• Bristol Harbour Authority
• British Waterways - supported by grant-in-aid from Government
• Broads Authority - a National Park Authority
• Cambridgeshire Lodes
• Cardiff Harbour Authority
• Chesterfield Canal Partnership
• City of York Council
• Company of Proprietors of the Chelmer & Blackwater navigation
• Company of Proprietors of the Neath Canal Navigation
• Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation
• Conservators of the River Cam
• Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority - a Trust Port, Dartmouth
• Devon County Council
• Driffield Navigation Trust
• Droitwich Canals Trust
• Environment Agency - supported by grant-in-aid from Government
• Essex Waterways Ltd, a subsidiary of the Inland Waterways Association
• Exe Estuary Navigation Authority based at Exeter
• Exeter City Council
• Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal Trust
• Hull City Council
• Inland Waterways Association subsidiary Essex Waterways Ltd
• Ipswich & Stowmarket Navigation - River Gipping Trust
• River Ivel - Environment Agency and riparian landowners
• Lake District National Park Authority
• Lancaster Canal's Northern Reaches - various ownerships
• Lapal Canal - various ownerships
• Little Ouse Navigation - Environment Agency / riparian landowners
• Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority
• Lower Avon Navigation Trust (Evesham to Tewkesbury)
• Manchester Ship Canal Company
• Medway Ports
• Middle Level Commissioners
• Neath Canal Navigation, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
• Port of Hull, Associated British Ports
• Port of London Authority
• River Dee, Wales - Environment Agency has harbour authority responsibilities downstream
• River Glen, Environment Agency
• River Great Ouse, Environment Agency
• River Hamble Harbour Office
• River Hull, Associated British Ports
• River Humber, ABP Ports is Competent Harbour Authority for Humber
• River Idle, Environment Agency
• River Medway - Non-tidal: Environment Agency; Tidal: Medway Ports
• River Severn, Avon and Wiltshire: Bristol Haven Conservancy
• River Severn, Gloucestershire/Herefordshire: Gloucester Harbour Trustees
• River Tyne - Tidal: Port of Tyne Authority; non-tidal: various
• Scottish waterways - managed by the Scottish Executive and British Waterways Scotland (BWS)
• Sleaford Navigation
• Ulster Canal - various, both in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
• Upper Avon Navigation Trust (Stratford-on-Avon to Evesham)
• The Waterways Trust
• The Wey & Arun Canal Trust, Wey & Arun Junction Canal
• Wey and Godalming Navigations, National Trust
• The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust
• River Witham - Witham Fourth District Drainage Board

See also

UK Waterways portal

Waterways

• List of waterways
• Waterways in the United Kingdom
• Association of Inland Navigation Authorities (AINA), an unincorporated membership organisation for inland navigation authorities
• Inland Waterways Association
• Scottish Inland Waterways Association
• Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (includes Northern Ireland)
• List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom

Rivers

• Rivers of the United Kingdom
• List of rivers of the United Kingdom
• Estuary, Firth, Floodplain, River delta, Source (river or stream), Tributary

Canals

• Canals of the United Kingdom
• List of canal aqueducts in Great Britain
• List of canal basins in Great Britain
• List of canal junctions in Great Britain
• List of canal locks in Great Britain
• List of canal tunnels in Great Britain

Seaports

• List of seaports

Other

• Navigability
• Tide

External links

• Associated British Ports - main page
• Associated British Ports - Hull
• Association of Inland Navigation Authorities website
• Basingstoke Canal Authority website
• Bridgewater Canal website
• British Waterways website
• Broads Authority website
• Conservators of the River Cam website
• Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority website
• Driffield Navigation Trust website
• Environment Agency website
• River Humber website
• Medway Ports website (Tidal section)
• Middle Level commissioners website
• River Wey navigation, National Trust
• River Hamble website
• Manchester Ship Canal website
• Sleaford Navigation Trust website
• Port of London Authority website
• Witham Fourth District Internal Drainage Board