The Oxford Canal is a 78-mile narrowboat canal in southern central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury via Banbury and Rugby. Completed in 1790, it connects to the
The Oxford Canal viewed from Napton-on-the-Hill
The canal and locks at Hillmorton
A canal boat on the canal near Brinklow on the long stretch between Coventry and Rugby.
The Oxford Canal passes mainly through the Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire countryside, and is often considered to be one of the most scenic canals in Britain. The construction of the Oxford Canal in 1790 aided Banbury's growth. The shot is taken at Tooley's Boatyard, Banbury.
A narrowboat is a particular type of barge, built to fit the narrow locks of the United Kingdom. The UK's canal system provided a nationwide transport network during the Industrial Revolution, but wit
Oxford Canal
…The Oxford Canal is a 78-mile (126 km) narrowboat canal in southern central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury (just north of Coventry and south of Bedworth) via…
Modern narrowboats for leisure cruising, Bugsworth Basin, Buxworth, Derbyshire, England
The horse-drawn narrowboat SIÂN on the Montgomery Canal
Historic working narrow boats on the Macclesfield Canal in Cheshire, England. The leading boat, Forget Me Not, is hauling the un-powered butty Lilith. This became a familiar operating pattern once motors began to replace horses.
A narrowboat, crewed by a boatman and his son, carrying barrels of fruit pulp on the Regent's Canal, London, 1944