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.

In total the Leeds and Liverpool Canal boasts 14 sets of staircase locks and 93 locks, enabling the waterway to climb more than 400ft up and down the Pennines.Eventually stretching 127 and a ...

Peter James Stewart, 86, from Leeds, was discovered in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal near Bramley Fall Woods, in Leeds, on 15 January. Police have confirmed his identity following a number of ...

Cycling along the canal north of Liverpool docks at dusk I did not meet a single person apart from a few drinkers at the pub in Bootle. There were plenty of moorhens, buddleia and a few derelict ...

A popular Lancashire waterway enjoyed a 200-year-old-plus birthday this week.

A SPECIAL festival is being organised to celebrate 200 years since the Leeds to Liverpool Canal was opened to our city. Liverpool’s award-winning Eldonian Village on the canal will host The ...

THE birth of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was one of the most important moments in East Lancashire's history.

Leeds-Liverpool Canal. IWA, a registered charity which leads campaigns to conserve, maintain and restore Britain’s network of canal and river waterways, is working in partnership with Eldonian ...