Last year, the Government announced a cut in funding for the Canal & River Trust (CRT), the organisation charged with maintaining 2,000 miles of canals and navigable rivers. According to Richard ...

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But it was next great advance in transport technology ... the significance and importance of the canal system on business and industrial output in Britain during the 19th century.