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Running close by is the Shropshire Union Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford and constructed between 1827 and 1835, linking Birmingham to the Mersey.

An important medieval town, it declined until the early 19th century when the Horncastle Navigation Canal opened, giving access to Lincoln and Boston.

This delightful stretch of towpath, with its lines of quaint cottages and period houses, is where the Kennet & Avon Canal enters Newbury on its way to meet the Thames at Reading.

Today Hythe stages a popular summer Venetian Festival to celebrate its famous canal, which remains an ideal place for a punt and a day on the water.

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

Here it dips under Telford's masterpiece, the magnificent Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Welsh section of the Shropshire Union Canal.

The Grand Union was created in the 1920s from a network of independent canals linking London with the industrial towns of the West and East Midlands.

There has been a hostelry on this site for many centuries, but this version was originally built to cater for the navigators who built the canal.

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

The canal is in constant use today so the towpath to the right of it is broad and clear. The tower of the old Town Hall can still be seen.

been at the centre of various speculative transport schemes: there was once talk of an Islington-Wallasea railway passing this way, as well as plans to link the village to Purfleet and Battlesbridge by canal

The Bridgewater Canal was built solely for the transportation of freight but so many people came to see it that a passenger service was soon started between Warrington and Manchester.

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

In the interest of national security this was counteracted when the Royal Military Canal was built as a defence against Napoleon in 1807, linking the Rother with Hythe.

Parts of the Lagan Canal were cuts made to bypass wide bends in the river, but most of the route is the river itself, with the tow-path added.

This ancient port lost much of its importance when the Exeter ship canal was cut in the mid 16th century, causing shipping to bypass its wharves.

Separated from the old town of Warrington by the Mersey and also (since the 1890s) by the Manchester Ship Canal, with Thelwall we are now back in that part of the county that was always Cheshire.

Our photographer is standing on the bridge over the lock which separates the dock from the Lancaster Canal basin.

Timber was a major commodity carried on the canal; it was used not only by the building industry, but also in the manufacture of paper and cardboard, then a major Warrington industry.

Being on the far side of the Lancaster Canal from the centre, the school was considered to be out in the country, and the air was good for the boys.

Although a seemingly idyllic view of the canal, what this picture cannot show is the stagnant state of the water, caused by silting and the rubbish thrown in by householders and businesses along the waterway

The pedestrian route to Shugborough still passes down the lane, beneath the railway bridge of 1848, over the canal and across Essex Bridge.

With the opening of the canal system it was possible to trans-ship at Runcorn directly into narrow boats, and for the clay to be taken direct to the Potteries.

A small canal runs through the back of the town on its way to the River Stour. Little in this picture has changed today.