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According to some sources, they also helped to construct the nearby Basingstoke Canal. Odiham churchyard contains the graves of several French prisoners.

The old Turf Lock Inn stands near the lock gates where the Exeter Canal - probably the oldest in England - meets the Exe estuary.

This is the Grand Union Canal. The line was built by the Grand Junction company between London and Braunston (Northants).

This part of the canal has been recently restored. The track on the left runs from Westwood stone quarry.

The circular building on the right used to be the house of a canal lengthsman, or maintenance man.

The Lydney Canal is just one mile long with one lock and the tidal doors seen here, but it was an important and busy port for the shipment of coal from mines in the Forest of Dean.

This view of the Lagan Canal has all the appearance of a Sunday afternoon, with no risk of getting in the way of the horses and their tow ropes.

Crossing below the road at this point there is, in fact, a tunnel for the Trent and Mersey Canal. Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.

There were nine swing bridges over the canal, seven of them being where major roads crossed. Some crossing points not considered important enough for a bridge were provided with ferries.

This must be a very early photograph of the navigation, for the canal did not open until 1 January 1894. 36 miles long, and many years (and financial crises) under construction, it linked Manchester to

It was once a modest seaport for the Bude Canal but grew in size and importance after the railway arrived in the 1890s.

Although it looks like a Gothic folly, this roundhouse was lived in by a lengthmen and his family who collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

In the one hundred years following the building of the Peak Forest Canal in 1801 the population of Romiley tripled.

The bridge boosted the local economy by enabling coal from the Forest of Dean to be transported across to Sharpness, from where it was shipped inland up the canal to Gloucester and the Midlands

It was 1790 before the construction of the Oxford Canal, with a wharf at Brinklow, brought real prosperity. Brinklow is town- sized today, but it is basically a commuter village.

The Talbot Arms pub on the right hand side of the photograph has now been renamed the Tunnel Top because there is an air vent nearby for the canal tunnel that runs under the present-

There were once thirteen cotton mills here, and the town was linked by both canal and rail to other industrial centres all around.

Once a canal feeder, Chasewater was developed for recreational purposes in the late 1950s offering sailing and boating.

Here, from the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal of 1812, Abergavenny can be seen in the distance.

Here, from the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal of 1812, Abergavenny can be seen in the distance.

A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.

A canal to Tiverton once started from near French Weir.

The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

The Basingstoke canal of 1794 linked the Wey and Godalming Navigation (the River Wey) with Basingstoke.