Waterways charity Canal & River Trust has commenced a heritage survey of the nation’s canal network, starting with the 127-mile-long Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The project will chart how the ...

We join the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal from the former mill village of Wheelton and pass Botany Bay, an 1850s cotton mill, before heading to the reservoirs of White Coppice.

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is 127 miles (204km) long and was built more than 200 years ago. Reservoirs up in the Pennines supply it with water, but at the end of June the Canal and River Trust ...