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This is the lower reach of the old Liskeard and Looe Canal; it was still used occasionally at this date to carry sea sand and limestone for burning in the kilns at Sandplace.

This Round House, like others along the man-made waterway, was lived in by a lengthman and his family - they collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

The Kennet and Avon Canal, authorised by Act of Parliament in 1794 and opened in 1810, linked Bristol with London, cutting a canal from the Avon in Bath to the Kennet, which was then canalised to the Thames

A chance for the local people to relax sailing on one of the canal reservoirs. These were built along the Grand Union Canal to maintain the water level in the canal.

This is the entrance to Braunston Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal. This is 2049 yards long, and it leaks quite appreciably; boaters must wear waterproofs when transiting.

Opened in 1894 by Queen Victoria, the Manchester Ship Canal is 36 miles long. Still a busy canal for commercial traffic, everything here was built on a big scale.

The unique Barton Swing Aqueduct was designed by Edward Leader Williams to carry the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal.

On the canal near Bratch Locks. The canal is narrow; the maximum dimensions for watercraft are 70ft x 7ft x 3ft draught, with headroom of just 7ft, 6in.

The Oxford Canal was first opened as far as Banbury in 1778 and to Oxford in 1790.

In the 1790s the Kennet and Avon Canal swept past at first floor window level of the 17th-century George Inn to cut it off from the High Street.

This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.

This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.

These locks were constructed in 1774 on the Leeds/Liverpool canal, which transformed the town of Bingley into an industrial centre.

The Oxford Canal was first opened as far as Banbury in 1778 and to Oxford in 1790.

These locks were constructed in 1774 on the Leeds/Liverpool canal, which transformed the town of Bingley into an industrial centre.

Here we see the upper reaches of the Basingstoke Canal in Hampshire. The surface weed indicates a lack of commercial use. Note the telegraph poles on the left, once a regular sight alongside canals.

But this one has to be visited by boat, as it lies at the end of a half-mile underground canal originally excavated by lead miners. The canal is reached by a 104-step descent to this landing stage.

Completed in 1794, the Basingstoke Canal was originally planned to link London and Guildford with Southampton. Vessels plied the waterway carrying grain, coal, malt and farm produce.

A major boating centre to this day, Braunston was the northern end of the Grand Junction canal. At this point it met the Oxford Canal; there used to be a small lock outside the house.

Of canal boats there is no sign. When this view was taken, the canal carrying age was over and the leisure boom had yet to explode.

Runcorn is now the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, but there was a time when it continued down a massive flight of locks to connect with the Mersey and the Ship Canal.

This photograph looks down on the town from an aqueduct along the Macclesfield Canal, the last canal to be built in England, which opened in 1831.

The Thames and Severn canal opened in 1789, connecting the River Severn with the Thames at Lechlade.

The canal opened in 1817, and ran from Kendal to Lancaster, later continuing south to connect with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal via a tramway at Preston.