The Canal Map of Britain

(en)

A fascinating history of Britain's beloved canal network: the navvies whose brawn created the waterways, and the engineers and architects responsible for some amazing tunnels and aqueducts.

2024

59m

Documentary

History

Overview: A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. In the age before mechanisation, a frenzy of canal-building saw a new army of workers carve out the British landscape, digging out hundreds of miles of waterways using picks, shovels and muscle.

Status: Released

Release date: March 15, 2024

Countries of origin: United Kingdom,

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Channel 5

Top Cast

Mark Benton

as Narrator

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