The 2,000 miles of narrow canals that weave through England were built a few centuries ago to ferry coal from rural mines to mills and cities. Long abandoned for faster transport, the canals now fill ...

Kinver (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Motoring down the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal in England's West Midlands, Neil Cocksedge's narrowboat at first sight looks like most other vessels plying the ...

Teams of narrowboats are taking on the Birmingham Canal Navigations in a 24 hour challenge. It will see them traverse different routes in and around the West Midlands to help raise awareness of the ...

Annemarie Uren and Kath Hopkins have lived on a narrowboat for four years, traveling through the UK's canal system. The coronavirus pandemic has put the couple's journey on hold. Besides their kitchen ...

More people are calling England’s canals — and the narrow boats used to navigate them — home as remote work options in the pandemic’s wake make a mobile lifestyle more possible. By Megan Specia LITTLE ...

When James Brindley built the first British canal in the early 1760s, few people could have imagined the impact it would have on the nation’s way of life. There was plenty of opposition to “Brindley’s ...

There are more than 2,000 miles of interconnected waterways in England and Wales. In my 17-metre narrowboat, I travelled from the northernmost point in the network – "within sight of the Lake District ...

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 ...

ON THE RIVER STORT, England — It takes only minutes for Jenny Poulton to get her house underway. On an August afternoon, she pulled up steel stakes, locked the cats inside and was off, moving her ...