title: List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom
text: # 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
  * Environment Agency – environmental regulatory body, manages its waterways as part of its water management obligations.
  * 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.
  
  ### Other authorities
  
  * Local authorities
  * National park authorities
  * Trusts
  
  ## Navigation authorities in the UK
  
  * Associated British Ports - ABP Humber
  * Avon Navigation Trust (Stratford-on-Avon to Tewkesbury)
  * Basingstoke Canal Authority
  * Beaulieu River
  * 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
  