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 ...

The inaugural 1816 boat passage by Yorkshire and Lancashire merchants on the 127-mile Leeds and Liverpool Canal is being recreated on a former working boat called Kennet. Members of the Canal and ...

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal bicentenary is being marked with a campaign to restore or replace missing mileposts along its 127 mile (204 km) route. Although the canal is 200 years old, the original ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...