You may see a Narrowboat hire but never considered hiring one, this may be down to many factors including not believing that there is much use for one, this is actually further from the truth and the United Kingdom is home to over 100 active canal which stretch up and down England, Wales and Scotland. After reading this you may think twice when you see that there are narrowboat holidays.
History of canals
Many people believe that canals were first built in the 1800’s to accommodate the boom of industrialisation, this is not entirely correct, the first canals were actually built by the Romans, they used canals for irrigation and transport. It wasn’t until the 1700’s onwards that canals grew to the amount that we see today (actually more as some of them need restoration to take them up to their full functional glory) Canals were used to transport goods to and from different parts of the good, they were especially good for transporting fragile goods. This was because the roads of the time weren’t up to the standards of today’s modern roads. Its was from this transportation of goods that allowed us to have an extensive network of canals that mean we can travel and transport goods across the UK; they are now used and loved by loads of people on narrowboat holidays.
Future of Canals
Although canals are rarely used these days in the transportation of goods, they are becoming widely used in the leisure industry; more and more people are getting the canal boat bug and are looking for narrowboat holidays. Picture the scene; you are out on your canal boat with your family, friends or partner, it is a summers day, you are enjoying the scenery and waving to all the friendly people you see on the pathway on your way, you then spot a pub further up. You then moor up and go and have a wonderful pub lunch and wash it down with that well earned pint, what could be better?
Consider
If you are looking for narrowboat holidays, you really should consider exploring the UK with this really historic tradition, you will find wonders and beautiful locations that you didn’t even know existed.
Narrowboat holidays
offers the truly relaxing experience for you to enjoy. At heritagenarrowboats.co.uk we offer a choice of narrowboat hire for our customers to choose– Visit us today for more information!