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Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.

North of Daventry and close to the border with Warwickshire, Welton stands on a hillside above the Grand Union Canal. Its name comes from the springs and wells in the area.

Several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal.

The Lancaster Canal follows a sinuous course between Tewitfield locks and a splendid aqueduct carrying it across the River Lune, just outside Lancaster.

Just to the north of Odiham runs the Basingstoke Canal, completed in 1794.

The Roman Foss Dyke canal fell out of use during Anglo-Saxon times, but was restored after the Norman Conquest to become one of the main outlets for the great medieval city's wool and lead exports.

When the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal was modernised in the early 1980s, several locks were re-sited and enlarged, and this was one of them.

Loaded narrow boats head north on the Grand Union Canal, their cargo concealed from both weather and prying eyes by careful sheeting.

Freshwater shell fossils, the fruits of ancient trees, and the fossilised remains of mammals can all be discovered.

The construction of the Basingstoke Canal in 1794 cut through the castle's outer defences to the south.

Once linked to the Bridgewater Canal, this view was taken near to Heath Road. The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn.

Freshwater shell fossils, the fruits of ancient trees, and the fossilised remains of mammals can all be discovered.

A lock linked the river and Nottingham Canal at the projection near the end of the walkway.

Preston was a major cotton town, and the Lancaster Canal runs from Ashton Basin.

The hamlet of New Mill grew up near the canal north of Tring around Tring Mill, now Heygate Flour.

What is now a short arm and extensive marina moorings was once the main line of the Oxford Canal.

Here the railway, canal and Holyhead Road (A5) run beside the river amid the Berwyn Mountains, a wild heather-clad upland. King's Bridge spans the river on the left of the picture.

The Lancaster canal runs nearby, dug out by navvies in 1797. Tom Rowe, the Lancashire cheese factor, lived at York House in Bilsborrow.

Hidden beyond it is the Thames and Severn Canal, and then the railway. Behind the viaduct on the left is Bourne Mill, formerly used by H S Hack to produce walking sticks.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

These locks are so close together that in order to maintain a satisfactory supply of water, it was necessary to extend the canal at the left-hand side above each chamber.

It was once an iron-ore warehouse from which the ore was loaded onto canal boats and shipped on to local ironworks. There is still some evidence of this traffic in the form of tramlines.

Set on the banks of the Tennant Canal, the Abbey was founded in 1130 by the Norman baron Richard de Granville. John Leland, in the 16th century, described the abbey as 'the fairest in all Wales'.

Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border—'London's lost route to the sea'.The shop on the left has old enamelled metal cigarette advertising signs fixed