Traveling by narrowboat through the Welsh countryside offers a slow, peaceful escape into Britain’s historic canal network.

A MAN who moved out of his home to live on a narrowboat has saved a fortune after growing tired of suburban life. Joel ...

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THE roughly 35,000 people for whom the waterways of England and Wales are home are worried that what has long been a low-cost ...

In the aftermath of her own break-up seven years ago, Hannah Pierce, then 30, bought a narrowboat named Argie Bargie. Plunged into life on the water on her 45ft-long boat, she quickly learned to ...

Changes are on the way for a former pub at the riverside in Reading that has been turned into a training facility for ...

The new narrowboat was lowered into the river by a specialist team using a crane on Tuesday. Chris Hayes, chair of the Sleaford Navigation Trust, said she was "relieved, amazed and delighted" to ...

A young woman opted to purchase and refurbish a previously sunken 49ft narrowboat for £15,000, instead of dealing with the 'mad' housing market. El Sutcliffe, a 27-year-old firefighter from ...

Residents at HC-One’s Ebor Court Care Home in York, North Yorkshire, recently enjoyed a memorable day out on the water, ...

A firefighter has opted for narrowboat life after moving out of her Birmingham home. El Sutcliffe has taken an unconventional approach to the "mad" housing market by purchasing and renovating a ...

Struggling to pay her £1,300 a month rent, the 33-year-old freelance writer from Middlesbrough used inheritance money to buy a £21,000 narrowboat — and set to work renovating the rundown ...