Visitors love a water-side environment. It's ideal for cafes, trattoria and craft sales. Various canal-related businesses operate here, including chandlers and other support for the boating enthusiasts who flock to experience the lift operation. The link shows how businesses are thriving at Exeter's historic quay and canal basin.

makes a fitting destination for trip boats and provides an integrated Victorian transport experience for the visitor that they will remember for many years - and remember Taunton as the place they received it! Click for link to WSR website

Like this trader at Bradford on Avon, small businesses thrive at the moorings provided on the scenic historic route above the Local Nature reserve. This is part of a circular walk that takes the visitor past craft and food suppliers and on to the wonders of the Long Run Meadows reserve before returning to the visitor centre for afternoon tea. Click the photo for an example of a thriving canal-side business nearby in Somerset

have other historic transport interests. The Norton Fitzwarren end could be developed as a site dedicated to all forms of industrial, private and agricultural historic transport, creating another 'first' for Taunton.