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Whilst the Latchford Viaduct is high enough to allow the tallest ships to pass beneath, a series of swing bridges allow vessels to pass through most road crossings along the canal.

This part of the canal has been recently restored. The track on the left runs from Westwood stone quarry.

The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

New Canal commemorates one of the many open waterways which ran through the medieval streets until the 19th century. The largest of the waterways was known as Town Ditch and was filled in 1875.

New Canal commemorates one of the many open waterways which ran through the medieval streets until the 19th century. The largest of the waterways was known as Town Ditch and was filled in 1875.

Once a canal feeder, Chasewater was developed for recreational purposes in the late 1950s offering sailing and boating.

It takes its name from the deep cutting which was made through the hills for the Basingstoke Canal in 1791-92.

These were built wider than normal canal locks in order to take wherries, which were broader in the beam than ordinary barges.

Thorne was an important inland port linking the South Yorkshire coalfield and the River Don with the Aire and Calder Navigation and the River Humber via the Stainforth and Keadby Canal.

The Basingstoke canal of 1794 linked the Wey and Godalming Navigation (the River Wey) with Basingstoke.

John Smeaton and Thomas Telford were among the 18th-century engineers who designed this essential section of the Lea Navigation Canal and River Lea, which allowed hundred-ton ships to reach Hertford

The Shropshire Union canal was owned by a railway, the LMS, and was formed in 1864. It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.

The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.

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.

One of its principal attractions has been its canal, especially where it spans the Dee using Thomas Telford's marvellous 121ft-high Froncysyllte Aqueduct, built in 1805.

When the canal was built and linked the town with Manchester, new industries soon followed.

Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.

On the left is the main London railway line and, still further to the left, the Thames and Severn Canal.

Taken from the canal bridge, this photograph shows Bridgewater Street, looking towards Eagle Brow.

Black's Canal was at the western extreme of the Gidea Hall Estate.

By the banks of the graceful River Wensum is the 15th-century gateway to the city's diminutive canal, which penetrates its way to the margins of the cathedral.

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.

Further along the towpath, past the section through Sydney Gardens, the canal passes under the Warminster Road, almost converging with the Great Western Railway line.

Until the mid 1930s, coal was transported from the Midlands via the Oxford Canal to Oxford, and thence along the Thames to Benson, where it was offloaded at the local wharf.