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Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.

The Aylesbury Arm was branch from the Grand Junction Canal, later the Grand Union Canal, which ran from near Marsworth across the Vale to Aylesbury; it opened in 1815, twenty years after it was first authorised

To its south is Saddington Reservoir, a picturesque stretch of water created in the 1790s to feed the Grand Union Canal.

The Bridgewater Canal was the first proper canal to be built and it linked Manchester with Worsley. It was so successful that an extension was then dug to the port at Runcorn.

First railways and then the motor age signalled the end of the canal network for commercial use.

The Macclesfield Canal was not completed until 1831, but provided a link between the Peak Forest and the Trent & Mersey canals.

The canal meets the River Gade at Heath Park, to the south of Marlowes.

When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.

Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

The network of canals developed mainly in the 18th century before the arrival of the railway.

This flight of locks is probably on the Brecon and Monmouthshire canal, which was built between 1797 and 1812 for transporting stone from Brecon to Newport for export, and for moving processed lime from

The GWR had just taken over the running of the canal and had set up a bridge-building section specifically for canal work.

The Basingstoke Canal, opened in 1794, was in decay in the 1950s, but it has been restored to reopen in 1991.

Stourport stands where the river Stour meets the Severn; it grew in importance after James Brindley built a canal junction there in the 1760s.

The course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.

The Caribou Hotel overlooks the basin and locks, which connect the Lancaster Branch Canal with the sea.

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.

Solid evidence of Victorian endeavour and values, Stephenson's great viaduct carries the Liverpool/Manchester railway over the Sankey Canal.

Two steamers head for the tidal lock at Eastham on their way out of the Manchester Ship Canal.

This short, 2-mile canal was opened in 1773, and is an extension of the River Ure. In this view of the stone-walled canal basin we see the cathedral rising over the roofs, and the old arched bridge.

In this picture we see the Manchester Ship Canal with the Mersey immediately beyond it.

The Wyrley and Essington Canal recalls an earlier development boom, when Britain was gripped by canal fever. Opened in 1797, it is now known affectionately as the Curly Wyrley.

The Stroudwater Canal was built between 1775 and 1779.