Canal Events & Festivals 2024 - 2025

The Black Country Boating Festival is a boat gathering and community festival held during September each year in the Bumble Hole Nature Reserve, Windmill End, Netherton, Dudley. With more than 200 boat, trade and charity stalls to browse, canal side entertainment, boaters’ competitions, a funfair, real ale bar, live music and regular boat trips along the Dudley No 2 canal, there is always something for everyone in the family. The festival is open to the public from 10am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday; admission to the site is free and there is ample onsite car parking available.

Saturday, September 21, from 08:00 to around Sunday, September 22, from 17:00

Banbury will be the place to visi... Dozens of colourful narrowboats will remind visitors that the waterway, which opened in 1778, was an important factor in Banbury’s growth, wealth and development.