Continue reading Those words, by LTC ‘Tom’ Rolt in his book Narrow Boat about autumn cruising on England’s canals could almost have been written today. The “new thatched hay ricks” are ...

Three horses, one dark brown, one beige and one white stood behind a metal fence with a field behind them © Videoman / BBC ...

The banks of a canal in Cheshire collapsed on New ... floodwater trapping people in their homes across the north west of England.

The towpath, located on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, offered some of the most uplifting open countryside anywhere on England's canal network, the trust said. Other improvements will include ...

There's history behind it, too; the canal opened in the early 19th century to transport coal, building materials and other goods from northern industrial cities to King's Cross – a long-standing ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

Liz McIvor looks at who built the nation's canal network, who funded it, those who worked on it and how they were regenerated following WWII. Britain's relationship with the canals of the ...

Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, history’s first city. The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region ...

A belligerent goose has been caught on film chasing off pedestrians on a canal path. The reaction of the bird's victims was described as "priceless" by the user of X, formerly Twitter, who posted ...