Britain's canal network was never designed with nature in mind. Built more than two centuries ago to move coal, clay and ...

Over the coming weeks and months, Paul Miles will be following in the wake of narrowboating pioneer L.T.C. Rolt, retracing a journey he made – and wrote about – more than 80 years ago and reflecting ...

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 ...

LITTLE BOURTON, EnglandLITTLE BOURTON, England — On a damp June afternoon, a floating home bobbed gently on the Oxford Canal, where it was moored just outside the village of Little Bourton, a blip on ...

Michael Limbrey is chairman of the Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust England's canals are not valued enough by the government and need more funding support, the chair of a waterways trust says.

Often unseen, even by neighbours in apartments and houses on nearby dry land, a growing community of people live afloat on Britain's inland waterways, particularly in and around London. Many live on ...

England's canals are not valued enough by the government and need more funding support, the chair of a waterways trust says. Michael Limbrey has spoken out after the collapse of the Llangollen canal ...

LITTLE BOURTON, England — On a damp June afternoon, a floating home bobbed gently on the Oxford Canal, where it was moored just outside the village of Little Bourton, a blip on the map with just one ...