Boats offer affordable housing for some Britons, an idyllic life for others. A pair of swans - Georgie and Sukie - swam by Tricia Parrott's window as the sunshine reflecting off the canal played ...

IN a booklet entitled “The Projected Grand Contour Canal” (Birmingham: Cotterell and Co., 2s.), Mr. J. F. Pownall describes his ideas of a waterway linking together the main ports of England and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A massive sinkhole has developed in a canal in the English county of Shropshire, trapping two boats in deep mud and prompting ...

It’s Alice’s Day in Oxford, England. A winged griffin is playing a ukulele on Broad Street, awaiting the arrival of the Red Queen. At the nearby Bodleian Library, a caterpillar dispenses nutritional ...

14:00, Sat, Sep 7, 2024 Updated: 14:00, Sat, Sep 7, 2024 An incredible map shows where all of England and Wales' 2,000 miles of canals and rivers flow, and also the areas where there is barely any ...

LONDON, March 13 -- A pair of swans -- Georgie and Sukie -- swam by Tricia Parrott's window as the sunshine reflecting off the canal played glimmery games on the ceiling of her houseboat's main cabin.

After narrow-boat cruising five times on the canals of England and Wales, my husband Joe and I decided we were perhaps too old to do it again. Then came new friends Rick and Mary Day, who heard about ...

Paul Miles is following in the wake of narrowboating pioneer LTC Rolt, tracing a journey he made and wrote about more than 80 years ago, reflecting on how England has changed, and considering why so ...

Our train from London pulled into the tiny Gobowen station at exactly 2 p.m. on the button. After 20 minutes a lone taxi appeared and took us three miles to the Maestermyn Cruises rental office along ...