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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.

A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, which was intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.

This development, of course, meant the demise of the canals.

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

New Canal street commemorates one of the many open waterways which ran through the medieval streets until the 19th century.

The Kennet & Avon was a working canal when this picture was taken. Today, the only boats you will see are recreational ones.

This is probably the longest-lived operational horse-drawn trip boat on the canal system.

The two Bittell Reservoirs, the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and some pleasant countryside are all just a short stroll away for the lane`s residents.

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.

Sited beside the main north road, the pub has always been a busy place, with the canal and, later, the railway also bringing their trade. The former nearby station took the name of Roebuck.

Carnforth's industries of sand and gravel extraction and iron smelting depended upon the Lancaster Canal and later the railway, when an important junction between the north-south and east-west

The intended junction for the Staffs & Worcs Canal and the River Severn was to have been at Bewdley, but the locals objected.

Bypassed by the Bridgewater canal, the cobbled village centre has retained much of its quaint atmosphere. Perhaps Frith's photographer sought refreshment at the imposing sandstone Ram's Head Hotel.

This is where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was joined to the River Severn in 1815.

The village of Braunston lies on a hill overlooking a picturesque stretch of the Grand Union Canal, one of Britain's most famous inland waterways.

The canal was closed, except for the Bude section, in 1891.

Just a few minutes walk from here, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal links up with the River Aire and the Aire & Calder Navigation, providing Leeds with an inland waterway from the Mersey to the Humber

The Chesterfield Canal begins at the distant hump-backed bridge beyond a moored motor cruiser. The 'Trent Valley Way' long-distance footpath stretches from here to beyond Nottingham.

In the early 19th century, the colliery at Brereton nearby was connected by rail to a wharf, which enabled coal to be transported along the Trent and Mersey canal.

The bridge in our picture was erected when the river was diverted to form part of the Ship Canal in 1894.

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

The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal with the River Weaver. Narrow boats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire. An empty pair of boats head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.