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Her body was dragged out of the canal two days later at the Bloody Steps in Rugeley, where her grave can be seen in the churchyard. Two of the crew were hanged and another transported.

This famous Edwardian county hotel was built on the edge of Savernake Forest, where the Great Western Railway and the Kennet and Avon Canal enter the Vale of Pewsey.

Here several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal. In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges laden with bales of cloth passing through this now-abandoned lock.

By the time this photograph was taken, commercial carrying in narrow boats was almost at an end; it was kept going in many cases by early canal enthusiasts, for whom working long anti-social hours in all

By the time this photograph was taken, commercial carrying in narrow boats was almost at an end; it was kept going in many cases by early canal enthusiasts, for whom working long anti-social hours in all

The lane to Lower Close was originally a canal, used for carrying stone for building the cathedral in the 12th century.

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.