IWA's National Trailboat Festival 2008 will be held on the Grand Western Canal in Devon over the late Spring Bank Holiday weekend, 24th – 25th May.

The Festival, ‘A Grand Western Weekend’ will be open to the public on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th May at the canalside festival site near Halberton. There are plans for a number of events in the main ring, stalls of local produce and crafts and the like together with a variety of musical offerings.

The event will offer several thousand local people the opportunity of a great day out enjoying a wide range of stalls and entertainments, whilst learning more about the canal. Waterways in the south west are currently experiencing a renaissance with regeneration schemes planned or underway at a number of canals and rivers. This event should attract more visitors to these waterways, thereby benefiting the local economy, and help to inspire more local people to consider boating and canoeing as a pastime.

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