The latest study will also include around 200 miles of canal restored since the first survey was conducted. A team of 25 volunteers have started the survey on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal ...

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is set to be drained at one lock in Chorley. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website ...

An explorer plans to kayak the width of the British Isles in a challenge he has described as "never before attempted". Jim ...

A £2m project to improve part of the towpath on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in North Yorkshire has been given the go-ahead. The work will take place on a seven-mile (11km) stretch between ...

Nearly half of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal could be closed as the North West struggles with its worst drought since 1929. British Waterways has announced that a 60-mile stretch will be shut from ...

On we ambled, along the smooth towpath, past lock after lock. This part of the canal, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, was constructed by 1777 and the massive wooden lock gates don’t look that new.

Fish have been rescued and dams have been installed in an operation to fix a large canal breach. A five metre-wide hole appeared in a stretch of the Liverpool and Leeds canal at Rishton ...

PART of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal has been drained to find the cause of a leak. Staff from the Canal and Rivers Trust had tried to fix the problem by carrying out grouting repair work to the ...