| I love walking along canal towpaths and the route taken by the Leeds and Liverpool through Blackburn is a history lesson. |
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| Projects have included improving canal side towpaths, boat maintenance and helping crew trips. |
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| Earlier this year, residents in Kearsley protested over off-road bikers using towpaths as a speedway. |
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| He did ask if I thought people should not be allowed to walk on canal towpaths in case they fell in and drowned. |
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| The bridge will be of single span over the canal and towpaths and will be provided with ramp access from the north and both stair and ramp access from the south. |
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| The canals and towpaths are owned by the nation, not British Waterways. |
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| Many canals, inland waterways and towpaths were open for walkers and other visitors while many English Heritage and National Trust sites were open across the region. |
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| At the moment, cyclists need a free permit to use the towpaths. |
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| Crime on the towpaths includes everything from minor thefts to serious assaults and even murder, but the amount of crime reported is relatively low. |
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| After all, the track follows in the hoofprints of horses, which for hundreds of years pulled barges upstream along these same, now asphalted, riverside towpaths. |
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| British Waterways, which has its headquarters in Watford, near London, insists it does not want to bar walkers or canoeists from using its canals and towpaths. |
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| Various Acts of Parliament were passed regulating transportation of goods, tolls and horse towpaths for various rivers. |
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