
Text and photographs copyright of Jim Shead.

















| Year | Miles | Locks | Waterways that changed |
| 1660? | 9.50 | 12 | River Welland |
| 1770 | 21.25 | 20 | Louth Navigation |
| 1782 | 22.25 | 20 | Emmet's Canal |
| 1790? | 25.75 | 20 | Glan-Y-Wern Canal |
| 1792 | 27.63 | 21 | Stover Canal |
| 1800 | 31.63 | 26 | Caistor Canal |
| 1801 | 32.63 | 26 | Brown's Canal |
| 1806 | 51.63 | 27 | Royal Military Canal |
| 1815 | 50.63 | 27 | Emmet's Canal |
| 1818 | 52.50 | 27 | Red Jacket Canal |
| 1819 | 77.50 | 35 | Lancaster Canal |
| 1822 | 82.00 | 36 | Chichester Canal |
| 1823 | 93.25 | 44 | Carlisle Canal |
| 1825? | 96.63 | 46 | River Adur |
| 1828 | 102.50 | 71 | Liskeard & Looe Union Canal |
| 1833 | 116.63 | 73 | Glastonbury Canal |
| 1841 | 130.75 | 79 | Bridgwater and Taunton Canal |
| 1843 | 131.38 | 80 | Hackney Canal |
| 1853 | 120.13 | 72 | Carlisle Canal |
| 1854 | 106.00 | 70 | Glastonbury Canal |
| 1861 | 100.13 | 45 | Liskeard & Looe Union Canal |
| 1863 | 90.63 | 33 | River Welland |
| 1875 | 87.25 | 31 | River Adur |
| 1880? | 86.25 | 31 | Brown's Canal |
| 1910? | 82.75 | 31 | Glan-Y-Wern Canal |
| 1922? | 80.88 | 31 | Red Jacket Canal |
| 1924 | 69.13 | 23 | Louth Navigation |
| 1928 | 68.50 | 22 | Hackney Canal |
| 1936 | 64.50 | 17 | Caistor Canal |
| 1939 | 62.63 | 16 | Stover Canal |
| 1955 | 37.63 | 8 | Lancaster Canal |
| Year | Miles | Locks | Waterways that changed |
| 1790 | 1.00 | 0 | Morris's Canal |
| 1793 | 35.25 | 6 | Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal |
| 1794 | 59.75 | 57 | Glamorganshire Canal and Morris's Canal |
| 1795 | 72.75 | 76 | Neath Canal |
| 1796 | 91.25 | 92 | Leominster Canal |
| 1796? | 92.63 | 93 | Trewyddfa Canal |
| 1798 | 107.75 | 129 | Swansea Canal |
| 1799 | 128.75 | 194 | Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal |
| 1812 | 135.50 | 197 | Aberdare Canal |
| 1813 | 136.50 | 197 | Doctor's Canal |
| 1814 | 147.25 | 197 | Grand Western Canal |
| 1824 | 152.50 | 201 | Tennant Canal |
| 1858 | 134.00 | 185 | Leominster Canal |
| 1900 | 127.25 | 182 | Aberdare Canal |
| 1918? | 126.25 | 182 | Doctor's Canal |
| 1931 | 124.88 | 181 | Trewyddfa Canal |
| 1933 | 90.63 | 175 | Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal |
| 1934 | 72.38 | 152 | Neath Canal and Tennant Canal |
| 1945 | 46.88 | 101 | Glamorganshire Canal |
| 1949 | 35.88 | 69 | Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal |
| 1954 | 25.88 | 36 | Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal |
| 1962 | 10.75 | 0 | Swansea Canal |
| 1970 | 45.00 | 6 | Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal |
| 1983? | 48.25 | 16 | Neath Canal |
| Year | Miles | Locks | Waterways that changed |
| 1566 | 5.25 | 2 | Exeter Ship Canal |
| 1796 | 6.75 | 2 | Ulverston Canal |
| 1813 | 7.75 | 3 | Lydney Canal |
| 1822 | 67.75 | 32 | Caledonian Canal |
| 1945 | 66.25 | 32 | Ulverston Canal |
| Year | Miles | Locks | Waterways that changed |
| 1776? | 2.00 | 0 | Cyfarthfa Canal |
| 1778? | 8.50 | 2 | St. Columb Canal |
| 1781? | 2.00 | 0 | St. Columb Canal |
| 1788 | 3.50 | 2 | Ketley Canal |
| 1801? | 4.88 | 3 | Galton's Canal |
| 1816? | 3.38 | 1 | Ketley Canal |
| 1817 | 9.38 | 3 | Tavistock Canal |
| 1823 | 44.88 | 11 | Bude Canal |
| 1827 | 50.88 | 13 | Torrington Canal |
| 1829 | 52.88 | 13 | Cann Quarry Canal |
| 1835? | 50.88 | 13 | Cyfarthfa Canal |
| 1838 | 64.63 | 23 | Grand Western Canal |
| 1839 | 62.63 | 23 | Cann Quarry Canal |
| 1842 | 76.13 | 23 | Chard Canal |
| 1864 | 62.38 | 13 | Grand Western Canal |
| 1868 | 48.88 | 13 | Chard Canal |
| 1871 | 42.88 | 11 | Torrington Canal |
| 1873 | 36.88 | 9 | Tavistock Canal |
| 1891 | 1.38 | 1 | Bude Canal |
| 1897 | 0.00 | 0 | Galton's Canal |
| Year | Miles | Locks | Waterways that changed |
| 1731 | .75 | 1 | Beverley Beck |
| Year | Miles | Locks | Waterways that changed |
| 1710 | 10.38 | 17 | River Itchen |
| 1761 | 13.88 | 21 | River Blyth |
| 1797 | 27.75 | 34 | Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation |
| 1840 | 31.00 | 34 | River Isle and Westport Canal |
| 1869 | 20.63 | 17 | River Itchen |
| 1934 | 17.13 | 13 | River Blyth |