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Last updated: 27 August 2026

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Travel on rivers and canals can involve significant risk. Use this site only as a planning aid, not as a substitute for local knowledge, inspection, or official notices.

Gauge readings, flood alerts, sewage discharge status, channel widths, draft limits, locks, put-ins, weirs, parking, waterway notes, photos, and suggested routes may be automated, provisional, incomplete, or wrong. Difficulty, navigability, and access are unverified hints only. Misjudgements are possible. The visualisation is machine-generated and unchecked.

Nothing here replaces guidebooks, expert advice, site inspection, or your own research. Conditions on the water and how you read them can differ sharply from what the map shows. Waterways can change suddenly.

Deciding to travel a waterway, or any stretch of it, is always your responsibility and at your own risk. Using unsuitable water levels or ignoring access and safety constraints carries serious risk, including legal and insurance consequences.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operators of On the River accept no liability for loss, injury, damage, or other consequences arising from use of this site or reliance on its contents.

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On the River

Rivers and canals, mapped for going somewhere. I built this partly to see if I could paddle to a certain spot, and as a learning project that I could share.

Britain, Ireland, France, the Netherlands and Belgium: named waterways, locks, clubs, channel guides, and route planning. Sign in to save routes, keep favourites, and use Detailed or Satellite map styles. Saved routes and favourites follow your account across devices.

Browse the network, open a waterway page, and look up locks, clubs, photos, and channel hints. Click to plan a route along the water, switch to a footpath for a portage, then share a link or export GPX.

Still a work in progress. If something is wrong, or you have a feature idea, use Feedback / Support. Developed by Jack Prosser.

Planning only. Check local conditions, notices and access before travel. You go on the water at your own risk. We accept no liability. Full disclaimer