History · Documentary

The Canal Map of Britain

Released

2024-03-15

Runtime

59 min

Performance score

Not rated

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.