A steel milepost or milestone, painted black and white, standing alongside a grassy towpath and hedgerow that's starting to bud for spring. The text on the milepost reads: Sharlow 49 miles. Preston Brook 43 miles. R&D. Stone. 1819.

Early milestones were stones with distances (in miles) to key towns chiselled in.

This "milestone" is steel. It was placed in 1819, and is now painted black and white—the traditional colours of everything that belonged to British Waterways.

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Narrowboats on the Oxford Canal, Thrupp. #narrowboats #canal #baots #moorings #thrupp #oxfordcanal #britishwaterways #Photography

Early spring on the cut, moorings at Thrup on the Oxford Canal. #canal #boats #narrowboats #water #reflections #trees #Photography

11am to 1pm TODAY on #Yesterday

From 2019, 4 episodes of s1 of 📺 “CANAL BOAT DIARIES” with Robbie Cumming

Ep1
Shardlow to Stoke-on-Trent

Ep2
Froghall to Bugsworth Basin

Ep3
Marple to Huddersfield

Ep4
Sowerby Bridge to Manchester

#Canals #Narrowboats

New cruising video. Don't miss the surprise ending! youtu.be/a2CFo5JGdro #UKCanals #narrowboats

11am to 1pm TODAY on #Yesterday

2 episodes from s6 of 📺 “Canal Boat Diaries” with #RobbieCumming, as he offers a personal take on life aboard his narrowboat home the Naughty Lass

Ep 9 Cowley to Hunton Bridge

Ep 10 Hunton Bridge to Aylesbury

#Canals #Narrowboats

You all know how much we at #Ortomarine love a three-boat move… so we decided it was time for another one! 🚤🚤🚤

Luckily we had sunshine & beautiful clear blue skies, which made all the logistics a lot more pleasant ☀️

#narrowboats #boatmove #newarrival #crane #boatswithtech

DSP

swanning around, A #graceful#Swan glides along a #canal near #Stockport in #Cheshire. The waterway is used by #walkers and #narrowboats welcoming all who visit. #wildlife #birdlife #CanalRiverTrust. See more #images and #photography at www.darrensmith.org.uk #birdphoto

11am to 1pm TODAY on #Yesterday

2 episodes from s6 of 📺 “CANAL BOAT DIARIES” with Robbie Cumming, as he offers a personal take on life aboard his narrowboat home the Naughty Lass

Ep 7 Weybridge to Stonebridge Park

Ep 8 Harlesden to Stratford

#Canals #Narrowboats

9am to 11am TODAY on #Yesterday

From 2019, 4 episodes of s1 of 📺 “CANAL BOAT DIARIES” with Robbie Cumming

Ep1 Shardlow to Stoke-on-Trent

Ep2 Froghall to Bugsworth Basin

Ep3 Marple to Huddersfield

Ep4 Sowerby Bridge to Manchester

#Canals #Narrowboats

New video. I head back to Norbury Junction on the Shroppie. youtu.be/MeBtuunIWbo #UKCanals #narrowboats #canals

An Under-Sung Companion (to the canal) Join us tonight as we reflect on that often under-appreciated companion to the canals, the humble towpath. We uncover its vital importance in the past and how in, r…

Join us tonight as we reflect on that often under-appreciated companion to the canals, the humble towpath. We uncover its vital importance in the past and how in, recent years, its relationship with the canal has been changing.
#podcast #ukcanals #narrowboats #history
www.noswpod.com/towpath/

8am to 10am TODAY on #Yesterday

2 episodes from s6 of 📺 “Canal Boat Diaries” with #RobbieCumming, as he offers a personal take on life aboard his narrowboat home the Naughty Lass

Ep 5, Windsor to Godalming

Ep 6, Byfleet to Odiham Castle

#Canals #Narrowboats

Yellow Crocus flowers growing in a plastic pot. They have droplets of water from the rain on them.

Yellow Crocus flowers growing in a plastic pot with a 3d printed and painted Eevee hiding next to them. Flowers have droplets of water from the recent rain on them.

Yellow Crocus flowers growing in a plastic pot with a 3d printed and painted Eevee hiding next to them.

Spring is our rooftop "garden"

📷 #FujiFilm #X-T5
🔭XF70-300mm / XF18-135

#Photography #Nature #Pokemon #MorningVibes #Crocus #BloomScrolling #Narrowboats

Narrow Dog to Carcassonne: Terry Darlington Published by Bantam Press / Random House, 2005, 352 pages “We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure.” A retired couple, Terry and Monica Darlington …

This week’s book review: Terry Darlington's Narrow Dog to Carcassone. He and his wife took with their whippet on a narrowboat across the Chanel. The pubs- and chips-loving dog is the star!
#travelbooks #narrowboats #bookreview @randomhousees.bsky.social
talking-about-books.com/2026/02/14/n...

How about something insanely cute that has nothing to do with #travel or #narrowboats ?

Our cat Fifino was sooo handsome for a cat. Had the attitude to go with it. One of the things we were looking forward to with canal life was watching me get a kick out of all the wildlife on the canals

New cruising video! youtu.be/5Tz9A0h1-W8 #UKCanals #narrowboats

Whitchurch canal repairs to take most of 2026 New aerial footage shows the extent of the damage on the canal in Shropshire.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#UKCanals #narrowboats

Whitchurch canal repairs to take most of 2026 New aerial footage shows the extent of the damage on the canal in Shropshire.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#UKCanals #narrowboats

An inland marina. A row of narrow boats are moored up in the front as well as some other motor craft behind. Behind the trees the top of three silos of a sugar plant are visible. The sky is cloudy.

Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace #newtopographics #nikonphotography #narrowboats #marina #Newark

www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmi...

www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim...

An inland marina. A row of narrow boats are moored up in the front as well as some other motor craft behind. Behind the trees the top of three silos of a sugar plant are visible. The sky is cloudy.

Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025

#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace #newtopographics #nikonphotography #Newark #narrowboats #marina

https://www.clickasnap.com/profile/wvmierlo

https://www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim_van_mierlo/

Update on Penkridge Lock closure. canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/019b... #UKCanals #boaters #narrowboats

Barge life and the joys of post-industrial canals After an embankment collapses, a boater explains why people are drawn to life on the canals.

Barge in the headline wasn’t John’s word, but at least he got NABO and FBW mentioned…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #UKCanals #boaters #narrowboats

It goes without saying that we are thinking of all the boaters affected by the Whitchurch breach, especially this close to Christmas. #narrowboats #UKCanals

This from CRT (who ‘do’ X but not BlueSky):
Please see below a statement regarding the breach at Whitchurch on the Llangollen Canal. We will provide further updates as soon as they are available via the notice on our website here 👉 utm.io/ujsPr
#UKCanals #boaters #narrowboats

Cruising through the serene English countryside. So relaxing.
#scape
#narrowboats
#cruising
#blueskyphotography
#eastcoastkin
#england
#wales

A winter sunset over a marina full of narrow boats. The sky is a blaze of pinks, purples and oranges, all reflected in the water below. A thin slice of narrow boats, with the countryside behind, is all that separates the sky from the canal.

I’ve been AWOL, sorry 🙏 I will try to do better, but this was too nice not to share ☺️
#UKcanals #Narrowboats #Sunset #Lamdscape

From the archive - detail from the first of a number of narrowboat portraits executed over the years. This is 'Dawn Chorus' #canalboat #riverlife #watercolour #portrait #narrowboats #narrowboatsofinstagram #artistonbluesky #waterside #bargee #canalboatlife #watercolorpainting #reflectionsinwater

Narrowboats at Bancroft Basin. Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. 18th May, 2022.

For the remainder of the year, I will be posting a daily random photo from my past travels.

#travelpics #letsseewhatsoutthere #canal #narrowboats #stratforduponavon #visitbritain

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Ad: For Sale - narrowboats canal boat for sale 55FT #Narrowboats #CanalBoat #BoatForSale