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The Charitable organisation which has taken over responsibility for the waterway network from British Waterways. The west side of the Narrow Canal is administered by North West Waterways while the east side of the Narrow Canal, and the Broad Canal by Yorkshire & North East Waterways.

Official web pages for Standedge Tunnel and Visitor Centre, giving details of opening times, Tunnel trip prices, arrangements for boats making a transit, events, etc.

The Councils have long supported the restoration of the Canal and in doing so, have had to face their own particular engineering challenges to re-open the navigation.
Following the project’s completion in 2001, the Councils make a proportionate annual contribution (under a 21 year Agreement) to the Canal’s maintenance costs.

Campaigning for the use, maintenance and restoration of Britain’s inland waterways.
Campaigning for the protection and restoration of the Hollinwood Branch Canal.



Formerly the Boat Museum Society, it changed in April 2018 to the Waterways Museum Society. The principal aim of the Society is the preservation of the historic boats, skills, knowledge and way of life of the waterways.
Sowerby Bridge based boat hire company specialising in one-way bookings along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and circular journeys on the South Pennine Ring.






