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It was this canal, financed by the Duke of Bridgewater and built in 1761 by James Brindley, that was to bring about a complete change in the transportation of industrial materials and manufactured goods

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

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

The ghost of a middle-aged lady is said to haunt the inn, and several witnesses have smelt the candle she holds.

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.

The women baked bread, washed clothes, used carved spoons made of sycamore wood (it did not stain), cared for children and eagerly awaited the weekly carrier's cart to replenish their stocks of candles

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.

A modern mini-market now houses Stokesby Post Office, and the building shown here has become a candle maker's workshop and a tearoom with a charming garden beside the river.

A candle manufactory stood on this side of the harbour at Par. Across the bay is the distinctive daymark on Gribbin Head.