As global attention focuses on climate change at the UK’s COP26 conference in November, the Canal & River Trust is highlighting how the nation’s 200-year-old canals offer huge ‘blue’ opportunities to ...
Britain's relationship with the canals of the Industrial Revolution has lasted for some 300 years. In that time they've moved from being vital trade routes to ignored and forgotten relics ...
A network of canals was built around the UK during the Industrial Revolution for the transport of raw materials. The growth of rail and road transport saw the use of canals go into decline.