I have walked this trail around the canal for many years. There have been times when the channel was so low in water that narrated tours have to be canceled because the ship is unable to sail. Sometimes it's almost flooded and on the coldest days of winter it freezes over. Still, it doesn't matter because I always enjoy the walk.

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One of the beautiful places to visit and take photos, perfect for walking and enjoying nature.

Walkers reflected

River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation side by side

Canal reflections and busy towpath on the Calder & Hebble Navigation at Brookfoot, Brighouse in West Yorkshire

A nice day in great surroundings.

Towpath 'action' on the Rochdale Canal at Littleborough

I wanted a "sunnier" feel to this, hence no textures or "ageing" effects.

The shot was taken by the old Coalport China works, just outside of Ironbridge.

Brighouse Third Age walking group on the Rochdale canal towpath at Mytholmroyd

Lock reflections at Ganny Lock on the Calder & Hebble Navigation just outside Brighouse Town centre.

Brighouse Echo 13/9/2018

Reflections on the Canal ...

The Calder & Hebble Navigation at Cromwell Bottom, Brighouse

#Explore 1/10/2020

(Brighouse Echo 12/10/2020)

... out of Todmorden

A very busy towpath (didn't go that way today !)

The Calder & Hebble Navigation in Brighouse, West Yorkshire

(Explored 24/2/2021)

Regent's Canal, London.

Activity and reflection along the towpath of the Calder & Hebble navigation near Brookfoot (outside Brighouse)

Brecon Canal

This is the towpath between North Warnborough and King Johns Castle. Despite it being Autumn things are a rich green still for the most part and with the reeds growing so high you can’t even see the canal at times! Lovely though with sounds of ducks coots and Little Grebe.

River, Towpath, Canal .....

Towpath between the River Calder and the Calder & Hebble Navigation near Brighouse in West Yorkshire

Digital Abstract Art

Leeds Liverpool Canal East Marton . North Yorkshire june 2025

along the old towpath near Kingston NJ

Early evening monochrome view of a whitewashed canal side cottage reflected on a calm water surface. White tipped bollards lead the eye around a curved towpath

Towpath on the Calder and Hebble Navigation in Brighouse, West Yorkshire

A favourite place to take photographs on the canal. Today there were a couple of swans who posed perfectly for the picture..

Delaware and Raritan Canal

Washington Crossing, NJ, USA

The canal built in the 1830s connected the Delaware and Raritan Rivers. It was an efficient means of transportation of freight between Philadelphia and New York City. The canal cut many miles off the existing route down the Delaware and up the Atlantic Ocean coast.

-wikipedia

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Along the Basingstoke canal at Crookham.

Towpath between the river and canal on the Calder and Hebble Navigation - Brighouse, West Yorkshire

(Brighouse Echo and Halifax Courier 16/1/2025)

Regents Canal at Coal Drops.

View along the towpath of Montgomery Canal, Shropshire England. Once a working canal, now a haven for wildlife. Hasselblad X1D.

A walk on the towpath around the Stoever's lake.

Thanks for your visit and taking the time to comment, very much appreciated!🙋‍♀️

A towpath on the River Lea.

Converted to monochrome.

This image is of the arm of the Grand Union Canal towards Market Harborough,at the bottom of the ten locks at Foxton in Leicestershire,where canal users either ascend or descend the longest set of staircase locks on the canal system in Britain. The Grade 11 listed locks are a popular tourist attraction but I liked this image as it was so much more serene than the hustle and bustle of the locks themselves.

Many thanks for taking the time to view this and other images in my photo stream.

Taking a shortcut along the canal on one of our X country routes. Nice to ride in the sunshine, and looking forward to the warm days of summer.

The Pocklington Canal is a broad canal that runs for 9.5 miles through nine locks from the Canal Head near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, to the River Derwent which it joins near East Cottingwith. Most of it lies within a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest

The fold towpath here is part of the Wilberforce Way. The Wilberforce Way is a 60 mile (Hull to York) linear trail devised to mark the bicentenary of the 1807 Act of Parliament abolishing British involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Scout barge on the Calder and Hebble Navigation nearing Ganny Lock near Brighouse

At the summit (600ft - 183m above sea level) of

Rochdale Canal (Where else? :-) - Taken in December.

The Towpath , Bouzies , Lot , France Built in 1845 , the towpath was used by horses to allow barges or flat-bottomed boats to go up the currents loaded with goods on their return from Bordeaux.