Hi Darryl There are lots of maps online Just google inland waterways map Here are a few to be going on with http://www.canals.com/maps.htm This one is about the clearest I found so far <www.waterscape.com/media/documents/22605.pdf> Google each canal to get the history of it, when opened etc Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 12/03/2013 13:11, D & A Smedley wrote: > Some of my SMEDLEY ancestors were boatmen on the Trent at Sawley in the > 19th century. There is perhaps a very tentative link for them to Banbury > in Oxfordshire and I would like to know if there was any possibility of > regular river and canal traffic between these to parishes in the late > 1700's and the first half of the 1800's. > > I'm hoping that someone with a knowledge of the canal and river trade in > that broad time period will be able to help. > > Thank you > > Darryl > Sydney Australia