'Stream in the sky': Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales carries the Llangollen Canal in an iron trough 125ft above the River Dee On May 8, a flotilla of some 30 narrowboats will cruise along the Thames in ...

From industry to leisure Dug in the 18th century to carry coal and iron during the Industrial Revolution, Britain’s canal network became the backbone of trade before turning into a route for leisure.

Join us on an extraordinary journey through the Birmingham Canal Navigation, a network boasting over 160 kilometres of waterways. With its impressive expanse surpassing even that of Venice, this ...

ZOE BULSARA has swans for neighbours. Her mornings sometimes start with ethereal sunrises over long stretches of water. Four months ago the 24-year-old illustrator left her home in Bristol and bought ...

Tucked away in the Cotswolds, up a potholed, no-through lane, is a quiet farming hamlet of six houses and a tiny church where a Norman arch is slowly turning in on itself as the hill imperceptibly ...

Slow travel is drawing Americans to Britain’s canals, where boats drift at walking speed to Stratford, Bath and Edinburgh. The appeal is in the iconic stops as much as the chance to linger along ...

Slow travel is drawing Americans to Britain’s canals, where boats drift at walking speed to Stratford, Bath and Edinburgh. The appeal is in the iconic stops as much as the chance to linger along ...