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Blackburn had started to expand with the canal age.Then, in 1797, its first turnpike opened, connecting it with Bolton.

His model village provided all the essential living amenities, and for recreation he provided a spacious park on the opposite side of the river and canal.

One of the wonders of the waterway system, the five rise locks at Bingley in West Yorkshire are part of the Leeds & Liverpool canal.

The Leeds-Liverpool canal runs behind the church and crosses this road via an aqueduct.

Newport grew rapidly with the arrival of the Market Weighton canal in the 18th century; it was the final loading place before crossing a short distance to the Humber.

Now quieter, thanks to a bypass, it once had a wharf on the Grand Junction Canal which passed a quarter of a mile north of the village.

The locks and docks at Eastham form the western end of the Manchester Ship Canal.

Constructed by Telford and Jessop to link the rivers Severn, Dee and Mersey, the Llangollen Canal is one of the most popular waterways in the country.

The Grand Union Canal was extended from Leicester to Market Harborough via the dramatic locks at Foxton in 1809.

The 19th century brought many labourers to Cliffe, who worked on the Strood canal or the cement works. The Victorian Black Bull pub (centre) is now a renowned Thai restaurant.

The completion of Turf Lock in 1830 enabled vessels to enter the canal and proceed up to Exeter regardless of the state of the tide; the maximum dimensions possible were 122ft x 25ft x 10.5ft.

upriver, above London Bridge, were the more modest colliers, whose simple barges, loaded by man-power, carried consignments on to Thameside towns, for shipment to the Midlands and the north through the canal

Between the two world wars Jack Perrin, who lived in the nearby Hagg Cottages, used to sit by the entrance and sell half candles to people who wanted to go down the mine.

The Anderton Boat Lift at Northwich was built in 1875, providing a link between the Weaver Navigation and the Trent & Mersey Canal.

There were two canal and tunnel systems, one set higher than the other. Linked by an inclined plane on a 1 in 4 gradient, the boats were carried between levels on a rail-mounted cradle.

The Red Lion Inn shown here at the centre of the picture survives where others, such as the Bell (on the left) have not; public houses sprang up alongside the canal route which opened to great national

This village is less well known than the prodigious Grand Junction Canal tunnel that emerges just to the south.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the Ulverston Canal.

In the late 19th century, many workers from Holland were attracted to this land of canals and windmills as skilled peat workers.

Swans and ducks live in the canal basin.

The wooden bridge was built in 1827 to take the canal towpath over to millrace.

The parkland of 18th-century Welton Place sweeps south to the north bank of the Grand Union Canal, in its cutting leading to the east portal of the Braunston Tunnel.

This was just one lock in the long climb from the west edge of London up the Chilterns: there were 25 miles and 42 locks on the Grand Junction Canal (later to become part of the Grand Union), the original

Not only did the coming of the canal vastly lower distribution costs for the industrial towns of Yorkshire, it also provided a localised transport service for the towns and cities through which it passed