Traveling by narrowboat through the Welsh countryside offers a slow, peaceful escape into Britain’s historic canal network.

Navigate the most challenging canal locks in the UK with a 66.5 ft narrowboat, conquering 29 locks in a row at the steepest flight in the country. This video captures the camaraderie, physical effort, ...

On a canal boat, you can "step back in time to a slower era", said Paul Miles in The Telegraph. There are over 5,000 miles of inland waterways in the UK, snaking through some of the country's most ...

News; UK News; Macclesfield 'Substantial' repairs to collapsed canal banking will take 12 weeks to complete, engineers warn The Macclesfield Canal burst its banks over the weekend ...

The canal network is like a huge outdoor museum. Many canals are over 250 years old now, national treasures built by teams of engineers and navvies, showcasing historic feats of engineering which ...

Vast network of canals found underneath world’s first city. Archaeologists find nearly 200 primary canals and 4,000 smaller branches feeding over 700 farms ...

Archaeologists find nearly 200 primary canals and 4,000 smaller branches feeding over 700 farms Vast network of canals found underneath world’s first city Skip to main content ...

Canal & River Trust volunteers giving the UK’s deepest single lock a spring clean (Danny Lawson/PA) “When I took part the first time two years ago, I’d never worn a pair of waders before ...

The UK’s deepest single canal lock has been partially drained for a spring clean. Canal & River Trust volunteers are removing debris and litter from Tuel Lane Lock, on the Rochdale Canal, in ...

The UK's deepest single canal lock has been partially drained for a spring clean. Canal & River Trust volunteers are removing debris and litter from Tuel Lane Lock, on the Rochdale Canal in ...

Yorkshire is blessed with a rich system of canals, and it’s incredible to think that this amazing 250-year-old network is busier nowadays than at the height of the Industrial Revolution, with ...

The Canal & River Trust, which is responsible for 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, has mapped the “ecological footprint” of its canal network for the first time to show how ...