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The Grand Western Canal was a 19th-century dream, planned to run from Taunton to the river Exe near Exeter.

Now derelict, the Thames & Severn Canal linked the two rivers. It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows. The canal closed in 1954.

The locks at Fleckney are a part of the descent of the canal from its high point at Foxton into the Soar Valley.

Looking West to the Diving Board Coate Water was originally constructed in 1821-22 as a reservoir, and was designed to overcome water shortages on the canal system around the town when

This peaceful view shows the Lancaster Canal as it passes through Bolton-le-Sands. The canal arrived here in 1797, and transformed the village into a town.

To increase the trade of the local estate, Charlotte Bethell, the wife of the lord of the manor, financed this three-mile long canal, which opened in 1802. 90-ton keelboats brought coal to Leven and returned

Half a mile north of New Mill is a complex of reservoirs; they were built by the Grand Junction Canal in the 1830s to store water for the Marsworth Flight of locks, whereby the canal descends from the

The canalised stretch of the River Chess was opened in 1803 for Samuel Salter to ferry barrels between his Rickmansworth and Uxbridge breweries via the Grand Junction Canal.

Created in 1790, this successful canal was built to ship Bedworth coal to the town of Coventry. At Hopwas, just beyond Tamworth, the canal threads its way through attractive wooded country.

One impressive feature of the Manchester Ship Canal was the Barton Aqueduct, designed by Edward Leader Williams.

The Oxford Canal, one of Britain's earliest inland waterways, took 20 years to complete and was finished in 1790.

A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal.

Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.The canal provided a link between the navigable rivers Trent and Don, and with its opening Thorne went on to

Thorne was already a busy market town when the Stainforth & Keadby Canal opened in 1802.

At Great Haywood Junction, the Trent & Mersey meet the Staffordshire & Worcester Canal.

From Bridge Street we head north towards Victoria Square over the Chesterfield Canal, whose bridge parapets are in the foreground.

In 1949 the New Basingstoke Canal Company bought the canal from the Harmsworth family, who had owned it since 1923.

The Birmingham & Fazerley Canal, completed in 1789, provided a more direct route for London-bound goods. It was a unique example of co-operation between canal companies.

However, the economic life of the canal was short-lived. From the 1840s the steam railways proved to be the death-knell of the canal era.

The Hope was one of the many inns and pubs that lined the course of the canal, at one time or another.

We are looking westwards along the Grand Union Canal on its way to Birmingham, at point where it originally joined the Oxford Canal.

The Grand Western Canal was a 19th- century dream, planned to run from Taunton to the River Exe near Exeter.

The Canal Wharf 1906 Completed in 1794, the Basingstoke Canal was originally planned to link London and Guildford with Southampton.

Before 1865 in Andover, coal had been unloaded on the canal basin quay.