List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom facts for kids

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
• 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 - ABP Humber
• Avon Navigation Trust (Stratford-on-Avon to Tewkesbury)
• Basingstoke Canal Authority
• Bridgewater Canal - Manchester Ship Canal Company in conjunction with the Bridgewater Canal Trust
• 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 & 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
• 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 - the majority of shares are owned by Peel Ports, a subsidiary of The Peel Group.
• Medway Ports
• Middle Level Commissioners
• Neath Canal Navigation, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
• Port of Hull and the River Hull, Associated British Ports
• Port of London Authority
• River Dee, Wales - Environment Agency has harbour authority responsibilities downstream
• River Glen, Lincolnshire - Environment Agency
• River Great Ouse - Environment Agency
• River Hamble Harbour Office
• 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)
• Sedgemoor District Council - as Harbour Authority for the Port of Bridgwater and the River Parrett
• Sleaford Navigation
• 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
• Wilts & Berks Canal Trust
• River Witham - Witham Fourth District Drainage Board