Category
Canals
The 2,000-mile canal network — narrow boats, lock flights, aqueducts and Telford's industrial poetry in cast iron.
253 places in this category.
Canals by region
Highlights
📷 5Canals · South Wales
Glamorganshire Canal
Glamorganshire Canal — Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales.
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📷 5Canals · London
Camden Market
Camden Market is a place of interest in the United Kingdom.
📷 5Canals · London
City Canal
City Canal — former canal in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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📷 5Canals · London
Hackney Cut
Hackney Cut — canal in the London Borough of Hackney and Tower Hamlets.
📷 5Canals · London
Hertford Union Canal
Hertford Union Canal — Canal in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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📷 5Canals · London
Limehouse Cut
Limehouse Cut — Canal in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
📷 5Canals · London
Paddington Arm
Paddington Arm — main branch of the Grand Union Canal that leads to Paddington Basin, London, UK.
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📷 5Canals · London
Regent's Canal
Regent's Canal — canal across an area just north of central London, England.
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📷 5Canals · London
Ebury Way
The Ebury Way is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) rail trail in Hertfordshire between Watford and Rickmansworth. The route crosses the Grand Union Canal and three rivers: the River Colne, the River Chess and the R
📷 5Canals · South East England
Thames and Medway Canal
Thames and Medway Canal — disused canal in Kent, England.
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📷 5Canals · South East England
Basingstoke Canal
Basingstoke Canal is a canal in the United Kingdom.
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📷 5Canals · South East England
Itchen Navigation
Itchen Navigation — Disused canal system in Hampshire, England.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Jubilee River
Jubilee River — artificial anabranch, in most flow as a flood relief channel, of the (river) Thames.
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📷 5Canals · South East England
Portsmouth and Arundel Canal
Portsmouth and Arundel Canal is a canal in the United Kingdom.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Royal Military Canal, Bonnington Bridge to Gigger's Green Bridge
Royal Military Canal, Bonnington Bridge to Gigger's Green Bridge — canal in Bonnington, Kent, England, UK.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Royal Military Canal, Cliff End to Coastguard Cottages
Royal Military Canal, Cliff End to Coastguard Cottages — most southerly section of the Royal Military Canal.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Royal Military Canal, Coastguard Cottages to Wickham Cliff
Royal Military Canal, Coastguard Cottages to Wickham Cliff — canal in Pett, East Sussex, England, UK.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Royal Military Canal, Ham Street Bridge to Bilsington Bridge
Royal Military Canal, Ham Street Bridge to Bilsington Bridge — canal in Ruckinge, Kent, England, UK.
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📷 5Canals · South East England
Royal Military Canal, Scanlon's Bridge to Town Bridge
Royal Military Canal, Scanlon's Bridge to Town Bridge — canal in Hythe, Kent, England, UK.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Royal Military Canal, Wickham Cliff to Strand Bridge, Winchelsea
Royal Military Canal, Wickham Cliff to Strand Bridge, Winchelsea — canal in Icklesham, East Sussex, England, UK.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Southwick Ship Canal
Southwick Ship Canal is a canal in the United Kingdom.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Titchfield Canal
Titchfield Canal is a canal in the United Kingdom.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Wey and Arun Canal
Wey and Arun Canal — canal in the south east of England.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Wilts & Berks Canal
Wilts & Berks Canal — canal in the United Kingdom.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Cosgrove, Northamptonshire
Cosgrove is a village in West Northamptonshire, England, about 2 miles (3 km) north of Stony Stratford, 6 miles (10 km) north of Central Milton Keynes and 12 miles (19 km) south of Northampton along t
📷 5Canals · South East England
Chichester Canal Trust
Chichester Canal Trust — a other in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Loxwood Canal Centre
Loxwood Canal Centre — a other in england-south-east, United Kingdom.
📷 3Canals · South East England
Aylesbury Canal Arm
Aylesbury Canal Arm — canal in the United Kingdom.
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📷 3Canals · South East England
Clifton Cut
Clifton Cut — canal by the Thames in Oxfordshire, England, UK.
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📷 3Canals · South East England
Grand Junction Canal
Grand Junction Canal is a canal in the United Kingdom.
📷 5Canals · South East England
Grand Union Canal
Grand Union Canal — canal in England, the main line of which runs from London to Birmingham.
📷 3Canals · South East England
Newport Pagnell canal
Newport Pagnell canal — closed canal that ran to Newport Pagnell, Buckingham, England.
📷 4Canals · South East England
Blisworth
Blisworth is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England. The West Coast Main Line, from London Euston to Manchester and Scotland, runs alongside the village partly hidden and partly
📷 4Canals · South East England
Tooley's Boatyard
Tooley's Boatyard is a dockyard on the Oxford Canal in the centre of the town of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. The opening of the Oxford Canal from Hawkesbury Junction to Banbury on 30 March 1778 gav
📷 5Canals · South West England
Kennet and Avon Canal
Kennet and Avon Canal — South-England east-west coastal linking waterway via London, Reading & Bristol.
📷 5Canals · South West England
Somerset Coal Canal
Somerset Coal Canal — canal in Somerset, England.
📷 5Canals · South West England
Weston Cut
Weston Cut — navigation cut on the River Avon in Bath, Somerset, England, UK.
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📷 5Canals · South West England
Bridgwater and Taunton Canal
Bridgwater and Taunton Canal — Canal in south-west England.
📷 5Canals · South West England
Bristol Feeder Canal
Bristol Feeder Canal is a canal in the United Kingdom.
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📷 5Canals · South West England
Cann Quarry Canal
Cann Quarry Canal — former canal in Devon, England.
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📷 5Canals · South West England
Liskeard and Looe Union Canal
Liskeard and Looe Union Canal — former canal in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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📷 3Canals · South West England
Rolle Canal
Rolle Canal is a canal in the United Kingdom.
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Frequently asked questions
- How many canals are in this guide?
- We currently list 253 canals across the United Kingdom — every entry sourced from Wikipedia, Wikidata or OpenStreetMap and validated against our schema.
- Are these places free to visit?
- Many places in the guide are free to enter — almost every national museum, every public park and garden, every parish church and cathedral. Castles, historic houses and theme parks usually charge admission; National Trust and English Heritage members visit those properties free.
- Where does the data come from?
- Every entry is built from open data: OpenStreetMap (locations, tags, opening hours), Wikipedia (descriptions), Wikidata (structured facts and operator information), Wikimedia Commons (images), ONS open data (population). The site never makes runtime API calls — everything is fetched at build time and committed.
- How often is this updated?
- A weekly automated job re-fetches the upstream sources and rebuilds the site. Manual editorial corrections are applied as overlays on top of the open data.