The Trust has so far restored about half the 7 mile length to full navigation standards.

The history of the canal and the Trust's progress in restoring it

The Friends of Chelmer and Blackwater is a voluntary group whose main aims are to preserve the waterway from Chelmsford to the sea and to enhance the quality of its public enjoyment and appreciation.

The Cotswold Canals Trust is restoring the Stroudwater Navigation and Thames and Severn Canal for the benefit of the public. This canal runs through Gloucestershire and part of Wiltshire traversing the glorious Cotswold Hills.

The Erie Canal had an enormous impact on New York and America in the nineteenth century. University of Rochester students are writing the history of the Erie Canal and its successor, the New York State Barge Canal, placed on line here

Founded in 1954 to bring together all those interested in the history of transport, with particular reference to railways and waterways, its main objects are to promote historical research and to raise the standard of published history

Aims to educate the public to recognize the historic significance and present-day value of the Delaware Canal. Promote the preservation and restoration of the canal corridor.

Although originally formed to preserve what remained of the canal and its infrastructure, in 1987 the policy became one of campaigning for full restoration of the Wilts and Berks and North Wilts canals using as much of the original line as possible.

Focal point for information about the old Middlesex Canal which ran from Lowell Massachusetts to Boston during the first half of the nineteenth century.