Mist hanging over a still canal at dawn beneath a wooden footbridge, moored narrowboats fading into the haze with woodsmoke rising from a stove chimney.
Photo: Barry Skeates from newbury, UK · CC BY 2.0
Canal & Waterway Events

Batchworth Boat Rally 2027

📅 Date TBC · usually May📍 Batchworth Lock and the Grand Union Canal by Rickmansworth Aquadrome, HertfordshireWD3 1JJ

The successor to the long-running Rickmansworth Festival, this rally gathers historic and modern boats on the Grand Union Canal between Batchworth and Stockers locks, with a floating market, boat parade, lock demonstrations, live music and a Sea Scouts bar. The 2026 rally ran on the weekend of 16 to 17 May and the theme continues into 2027, celebrating the 90th birthdays of working boats built in 1936 and 1937.

What’s on

  • Historic boat parade
  • Floating market
  • Lock demonstrations at Batchworth
  • 1936/37 working boat anniversaries

The next date has not been confirmed by the organiser yet. This event usually runs in May. We check weekly and will publish the date as soon as it is announced.

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