• control of the inland waterways assets of the British Transport Commission in 1963. By the final years of its existence, British Waterways was sponsored by...
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    Transport Act 1968 required the British Waterways Board to keep commercial waterways fit for commercial use, and cruising waterways fit for cruising. However...
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    2023-07-19. Look up waterway in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikivoyage has travel information for Waterways. Media related to Waterways at Wikimedia Commons...
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    & River Trust (former British Waterways: England & Wales) Scottish Canals (former British Waterways: Scotland) Inland Waterways Association UK Canals...
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    boating. United Kingdom portal Transport portal British Waterways Waterscape Canal & River Trust Inland Waterways Association Falkirk Helix Geography of the...
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    Intracoastal Waterway Okeechobee Waterway Point Pleasant Canal Lewes and Rehoboth Canal Inland waterways of the United States Waterways forming and crossings...
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    Creek, British Columbia. In 1909 a charter was granted to the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway (A&GW) to build from Edmonton to Waterways, Alberta...
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    advocated a National Waterway Conservancy to look after all the waterways and pointed out that it is cheaper to restore and use waterways than to eliminate...
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    Prunella Scales (category British waterways activists)
    (Screen One, BBC 1991) by Alan Bennett (for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award) and appeared in the documentary series Great...
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    Timothy West (category British waterways activists)
    ISBN 978-1-85459-879-0. Great Canal Journeys: A Lifetime of Memories on Britain's Most Beautiful Waterways, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78606-511-7. Pru and Me: The Amazing Marriage...
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    Narrowboat (category Use British English from August 2017)
    unlicensed boats kept in private moorings or on other waterways in 2006. Most boats on CRT waterways are steel (or occasionally, aluminium) cruisers popularly...
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    temporary and touring exhibitions. The Waterways Archive contains a wide range of material relating to waterways in Britain and abroad. A terrace of four houses...
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  • IWA National Festival (category Use British English from January 2018)
    Boat Show run by the Inland Waterways Association is one of the key annual events on the United Kingdom's inland waterways. Generally referred to[by whom...
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    Wood Wharf (category Use British English from December 2014)
    000 m2) site following the transfer of all the assets of British Waterways in 2012. British Waterways had previously acquired the site from the Port of London...
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    Falkirk Wheel (category Use British English from January 2017)
    Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburgh was led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish...
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  • Inland Waterways Association (IWA), at a time when the waterways network was largely derelict. Today, the Canal & River Trust—formerly British Waterways—has...
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    Canal & River Trust (category Waterways organisations in the United Kingdom)
    responsibilities of the state-owned British Waterways in England and Wales. The concept of a National Waterways Conservancy was first championed and...
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    Canal (redirect from Artificial waterway)
    Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing...
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    by the state-owned British Waterways. Reflecting the decline in the use of canals and rivers for freight distribution, waterways were divided into three...
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    Caen Hill Locks (category Use British English from January 2017)
    which is equivalent to one lockful every eleven minutes. In 2010 British Waterways planned to install sixteen new lock gates in twelve weeks as part...
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    Towpath (section Britain)
    maintain towpaths for use by anyone, however, some ten years later British Waterways started to relax the rule that a permit was required to give access...
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    Waterways World. ISSN 0309-1422. BW Act (1987). "British Waterways Act 1987" (PDF). CRT. Cumberlidge, Jane (2009). Inland Waterways of Great Britain (8th ed...
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    Napton on the Hill (category Use British English from May 2016)
    Villages (Towns & villages of Britain). Sigma Leisure. ISBN 1-85058-642-X. British Waterways Board (1965). British Waterways Inland Cruising Booklet 6, Cruising...
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  • L. T. C. Rolt (category British waterways activists)
    Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, which stopped British Waterways from closing it; organised a hugely successful Inland Waterways Exhibition, which started in London...
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  • Elizabeth Jane Howard (category British waterways activists)
    secretary to the pioneering canals conservation organisation the Inland Waterways Association. There she met and collaborated with Robert Aickman. She described...
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    Caledonian Canal (category Use British English from February 2017)
    Ownership passed to the Ministry of Transport in 1920, and then to British Waterways in 1962. Improvements were made, with the locks being mechanised between...
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    Kennet and Avon Canal (category Use British English from January 2013)
    Wonders of the Waterways". Jim Shead. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2011. These seven wonders of the waterways are as listed...
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    of commercial traffic in the early 1970s, at the end of 1973, the British Waterways Board embarked on a three-year programme to convert one chamber at...
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  • bodies: British Railways Board (railways, hotels and some shipping) British Transport Docks Board (docks) British Waterways Board (inland waterways) London...
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    Crick Boat Show (category Use British English from March 2018)
    was organised by British Waterways, and has been held every year since then. Responsibility for its organisation was passed to Waterways World Magazine...
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