Scottish Canals

Scottish Canals
	Scottish Canals logo
Predecessor	British Waterways
Formation	2 July 2012
Type	Government-owned corporation
Headquarters	Glasgow
Region served	Scotland
Chairman of Board	Andrew Thin
Chief Executive	Steve Dunlop
Staff	247
Website	www.scottishcanals.co.uk
Formerly called	British Waterways (Scotland)

Scottish Canals is the public corporation of the Scottish Government responsible for managing the country's inland waterways. Formerly a division of British Waterways, it became a stand-alone public body of the Scottish Government on 2 July 2012.^[1] Legally, the corporation is still referred to as the British Waterways Board, but in all other aspects it uses the brand Scottish Canals and intends to steadily roll out this brand over the network.^[2]

Based in Glasgow, Scottish Canals runs the Caledonian, Crinan, Forth and Clyde, Monkland and Union Canals. It cares for 137 miles (220 km) of waterway network in total, including 17 reservoirs and the navigation rights to four lochs, including Loch Ness.

Status

Her Majesty's Government, which has responsibility for inland waterways in England and Wales, decided that the British Waterways division in those countries should become a charitable trust, the Canal & River Trust. However, the Scottish Government decided that canals in Scotland would remain publicly owned and British Waterways will continue to operate in Scotland as a statutory corporation trading as Scottish Canals. The Scottish Government is considering how Scottish Canals could work alongside Scottish Water, which is also publicly owned.^[3]

References

^ "Our Structure and Governance". Scottish Canals.
^ "Annual Report 2012/13" (PDF). Scottish Canals. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
^ "Scotland the Hydro Nation Consultation". Scottish Government. 1 February 2012.

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[1] "Our Structure and Governance". Scottish Canals.

[2] "Annual Report 2012/13" (PDF). Scottish Canals. Retrieved 5 September 2013.

[3] "Scotland the Hydro Nation Consultation". Scottish Government. 1 February 2012.

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v t e Navigable canals of the United Kingdom
England	Aire and Calder¹ Ashby-de-la-Zouch² Ashton Basingstoke Canal Beverley Beck Birmingham Canal Navigations³ Bridgewater Bridgwater and Taunton Buckingham Arm² Bude² Calder and Hebble¹ Cambridgeshire Lodes³ Chelmer and Blackwater¹ Chesterfield² Chichester² Coventry Driffield Droitwich Erewash Foss Dyke Gloucester and Sharpness Grand Union³ Grand Western² Grantham² Herefordshire and Gloucestershire² Hollinwood Branch² Huddersfield Broad Huddersfield Narrow Ipswich and Stowmarket¹² Kennet and Avon¹ Lancaster² Leeds and Liverpool³ Lee Navigation¹ Limehouse Llangollen Lydney Macclesfield Maidenhead Waterways Manchester Bolton & Bury² Manchester Ship Canal Market Weighton² Middle Level Navigations³ Montgomery² North Walsham & Dilham¹² Nottingham² Oxford¹ Peak Forest Pocklington² Regent's Canal Ribble Link¹ Ripon Rochdale Royal Military Canal Sankey² Selby Sheffield and South Yorkshire¹³ Shropshire Union³ Sleaford¹² South Forty-Foot Drain Staffordshire and Worcestershire Stort¹ Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Stroudwater² Thames and Medway² Thames and Severn² Trent and Mersey³ Weaver¹ Wey and Arun² Wey and Godalming¹ Wilts & Berks² Witham Navigable Drains³ Worcester and Birmingham
Northern Ireland	Coalisland Canal Lagan Canal Newry Canal Shannon–Erne Waterway Strabane Canal Ulster Canal
Scotland	Caledonian Canal¹ Crinan Canal Forth and Clyde Union Canal
Wales	Llangollen Canal Monmouthshire and Brecon² Montgomery Canal² Neath and Tennant² Swansea Canal²
Features	Aqueducts (list) Basins Locks Rings Tunnels (list) Winding holes
Related topics	British Waterways Canal & River Trust Scottish Canals History of the British canal system Manchester Pusher Narrowboats National Waterways Museum Navigable aqueduct Waterways Ireland
Notes: ¹ Contains canalised river. ² Partly or mostly navigable, and/or under restoration. ³ A system of canals. Canals which form part of this system are not listed here individually.