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 ...

As husband-and-wife pensioners, Brits Terry and Monica Darlington sail their barge down the English canal system, along the Thames, past London, to Paris on the Seine and down the Rhône to Carcassonne ...

Boat owners are "stuck" on a section of the Oxford Canal in Coventry that is blocked by a narrowboat that sank on Saturday. Five boats have had to moor by the side of the banks - two southbound and ...

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 ...

A short break on the Llangollen Canal manages to be both sedate and exciting, finds Cat Thomson. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website ...

WHAT is it about boats that’s so irresistible? Not giant, lumbering cruise liners or the cross-channel ferries — but put me on a sailboat, a rowing boat, even a pedalo carved like a swan, and I’m ...