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 ...

In the age before mechanisation, a frenzy of canal-building saw a new army of workers carve out the British landscape, digging out hundreds of miles of waterways using picks, shovels and muscle.

The project will chart how the charity’s canals, and the wider canal corridor, have changed over the past 30 years by updating and augmenting a joint British Waterways and Historic England ...