Mid Devon Moorings

(Formerly Mid Devon Hire Boats and Moorings)

About the Canal

The origins of the canal come about as part of an ambitious plan to link the Bristol Channel to the English Channel. The Grand Western Canal was proposed as a way to stop shipping sailing around the perilous Cornish peninsular and providing a route for transporting goods, including coal from South Wales into Somerset and Devon.

The section from Tiverton to the Limestone quarries at Westleigh (known locally as the Tiverton Canal) was completed in 1814, but due to the use of steep embankments and deep cuttings (to keep the canal level) the cost spiralled; as a result the next section to Taunton was delayed for a good many years, by this time plans of continuing south and linking to the English Channel had been long abandoned.

The canal itself is maintained by Devon County Council as part of the local Country Park so it remains very unspoilt and un-comercialised; being a wide canal with no locks and one lift bridge at just under a 2 meter air draft on the lowest bridge; it is a relatively non-strenuous stress free navigation.

For more information on the canal please visit The Grand Western Canal website.

To see the canal in a down-loadable map Click Here.

Moorings

Mid Devon Moorings (formally Mid Devon Hire Boats & Moorings) have a number of beautiful moorings on the Grand Western Canal located near East Manley bridge and have been welcoming craft here since 2004. The moorings are ideally located in a quiet and tranquil part of the canal right next to a winding hole, where each afternoon in the summer months you can watch the Horse-drawn barge turn around for its return journey of 2 miles to Tiverton. You too can chose to take the walk down the canal to the historic town of Tiverton or we are just 10 minutes by car from the M5 motorway connecting you to the rest of the Southwest.

Facilities at the moorings include:

• Wooden linear landing & stage walkway
• Maintenance landing with electrical point
• Toilet pump-out & rubbish disposal
• On site car park & lawn area
• Water, Fuel, & Gas
• We are also able to offer a winter lift out & maintenance service.

We can offer short and long terms moorings.

We regret that we are unable to offer residential moorings.

Slipway

Cruisers are very welcome on the canal and can be launched with ease up to 25ft (7.5 meters) long from the Boehill slipway.

The slipway is in Sampford Peverell and located just a few minutes from the M5 motorway J27.You can use the post code EX16 7EG to guide you in by satellite navigation, then simply follow the signpost up the lane.

More information regarding the slipway including maps, directions and canal Terms & Conditions can be found by visiting the Grand Western Canal Website.

Craneage

The canal has a very good craneage area for narrow boats available in the car park at Tiverton Road Bridge (nearest Postcode: EX16 4NG) near the village of Halberton.

If you are thinking of bringing your Narrow boat to the Grand Western Canal, but are unsure about haulage and craneage please get in touch as we have a list of good reputable local companies that can be of assistance. In fact if you have any questions we will be happy to answer them for you, simply get in touch using the contact section.

To see a map of the canal which includes the craneage site and other services & facilities simply click on the map below

Horse Drawn Barge

The Grand Western Canal is also home to one of Devon's much loved attractions the Horse-drawn Barge. Operating from Easter through until October, the barge makes its way from the Tiverton basin over a leisurely 2 miles before turning in the winding hole right by our moorings and making her way back down the canal to the gentle sound of nature.

Did you know that a winding hole is a wide part of a canal that is used to turn boats? As before motor power the wind was used to help with the turn.

You can find out more about the Horse-drawn barge including the current timetable by visiting their website.

The Tiverton Canal Company

Useful Information & Links

The Grand Western canal is a truly special place, and we can only do it so much justice trough our website. Therefore we have added some links below to other websites that will help you find out more about this wonderful canal and how you can get involved with it or enjoy it to its full potential.

Boat District.

The Grand Western Canal.

The Canal & River Trust.

Friends of the Grand Western Canal.

Apollo Duck (Boats for sale).

The Tiverton Canal Company.

Boats for sale

As this lock-free Country Park Canal is also landlocked, boats for sale and mooring facilities are limited, but this pleasantly results in a unique and friendly boat owning community, moored on our peaceful Marina. As boats are not sold with a mooring, a prospective purchaser wishing to remain on the Canal, would need to apply under separate negotiation for a mooring.

Below are the boats we currently have for sale, please click on the image to open details in a new window. Where no image exists, we unfortunately do not have any boats for sale at this time.

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GDPR is an acronym for The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU. It was adopted on 27 April 2016. It becomes enforceable on 25 May 2018, after a two-year transition period. The GDPR replaces the 1995 Data Protection Directive.

How does it affect you?
GDPR means that we must tell you what we do with any data you give us and how we intend to use it. How do you find this information?
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In the course of enquiries with MDM you will need to provide a limited amount of data to us so we can process your enquiry for example your email address or phone number, so we can reply to you. In doing that you have provided us with personal or identifiable data and we must protect that data and tell you how we use it.

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