Narrow BoatThe record of a voyage along 400 miles of the intricate canal-system of the Midlands. |
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Avon Banbury bank Barrow-upon-Soar beam bells beneath beside boatmen boatyard Braunston brick bridge Brindley cabin carried Chapter Cheshire church Church Minshull colour Cotswold cottage Coventry Canal craft Cressy Cressy's Crewe dark deck door engine England feet Fradley gates Grand Union Grand Union Canal green Haywood Hill horse-boat horses journey Junction Leicester light lock lock-keeper looked Market Market Drayton Market Harborough Marston Doles miles Mill Minshull moored morning Nantwich Napton narrow boat navigable night North Kilworth once Oxford Canal paddles painted passed pottery river River Soar road roof round ruin rural seemed shafts Shropshire Union Shropshire Union Canal side sight slope stone Stratford street summit tall timber toll Tooley tow-path tower towing towing-path town traffic trees Trent and Mersey tunnel turn valley village walked walls Wappenshall waterway weather weir wharf wind wood yards