List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom
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"
- Canal and River Trust – charity replacing British Waterways in managing the majority of the canals and many navigable rivers[1]
- Environment Agency – environmental regulatory body, manages its waterways as part of its water management obligations.[2]
- Broads Authority – has status similar to other British national parks but alone amongst them also exercises a navigation function. The "Sandford Principle" as applied in other national parks does not apply here.[3]
Other authorities
- Local authorities
- National park authorities
- Trusts
Navigation authorities in the UK
- Associated British Ports - ABP Humber[4]
- Avon Navigation Trust (Stratford-on-Avon to Tewkesbury)[5]
- Basingstoke Canal Authority[6]
- Beaulieu River
- Bridgewater Canal - Manchester Ship Canal Company in conjunction with the Bridgewater Canal Trust [7]
- Bristol Harbour Authority
- The Canal & River Trust, formerly 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 and Blackwater Navigation
- Company of Proprietors of the Neath Canal Navigation
- Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation
- Conservators of the River Cam[8]
- Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority - a Trust Port, Dartmouth[9]
- Devon County Council
- Driffield Navigation Trust[10]
- 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
- Gloucester Harbour Trustees - a Trust Port
- 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
- Manchester Ship Canal Company[11] - the majority of shares are owned by Peel Ports, a subsidiary of The Peel Group.[12]
- Medway Ports[13]
- Middle Level Commissioners[14]
- Neath Canal Navigation, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
- Port of Hull and the River Hull, Associated British Ports [15]
- Port of London Authority[16]
- River Dee, Wales - Environment Agency has harbour authority responsibilities downstream
- River Glen, Lincolnshire - Environment Agency
- River Great Ouse - Environment Agency
- River Hamble Harbour Office [17]
- 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[18]
- River Tyne - Tidal: Port of Tyne Authority; Non-tidal: various
- Scottish waterways - managed by the Scottish Executive and British Waterways Scotland (BWS)
- Sleaford Navigation[19]
- Somerset Council - as Harbour Authority for the Port of Bridgwater and the River Parrett[20]
- Ulster Canal - various, both in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
- Waterways Ireland
- The Waterways Trust
- The Wey & Arun Canal Trust, Wey & Arun Junction Canal
- Wey and Godalming Navigations, National Trust[21]
- Wilts & Berks Canal Trust
- River Witham - Witham Fourth District Drainage Board [22]
See also
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
Other
References
- ^ "CRT website".
- ^ "Environment Agency website".
- ^ "Broads Authority website".
- ^ "Associated British Ports - Humber, the Competent Harbour Authority for the River Humber".
- ^ "Avon Navigation Trust website".
- ^ "Basingstoke Canal Authority website".
- ^ "Bridgewater Canal".
- ^ "Conservators of the River Cam website".
- ^ "Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority website".
- ^ "Driffield Navigation Trust website". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
- ^ "Manchester Ship Canal website". Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ^ "Manchester Ship Canal - Peel Ports". merseydocks.co.uk.
- ^ "Medway Ports website (Tidal section)".
- ^ "Middle Level commissioners website".
- ^ "Associated British Ports - Hull".
- ^ "Port of London Authority website".
- ^ "River Hamble website".
- ^ "Severn Estuary navigation and pilotage website".
- ^ "Sleaford Navigation Trust website".
- ^ "About the Port of Bridgwater". www.somerset.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ "River Wey navigation". National Trust.
- ^ "Witham Fourth District Internal Drainage Board".